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The waiver -- and others expected from Idaho -- could take months to process, but “Medicaid expansion will happen on Jan. 1, 2020, regardless of the status of the waivers,” said Idaho Department of Health and Welfare spokeswoman Niki Forbing-Orr. Other Medicaid news comes from Kansas, West Virginia and Minnesota.
Among the states that received the grants are Ohio, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Reported to be one of the largest health care fraud schemes in history, it worked on many levels involving doctors, telemarketing companies and testing labs.
Also in the news, The Washington Post reports that the administration initially intended to defend the Affordable Care Act. Meanwhile, what's up with websites advertising "Trumpcare"? In addition, outlets report on developments from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services as well as the Food and Drug Administration.
The New York Times also reports on a recent trip to the border by lawmakers.
In two reports released Friday, federal and state health officials report that about three-quarters of patients reported using products that contained THC. Many said they bought the products from nonretail sources such as friends, family members or street suppliers.
The states join a dozen others with the change from 18 to 21 years old. Public health officials, parents and educators have raised warnings about high use of vaping products among teens. Meanwhile, Massachusetts' plan to temporarily close vaping shops is facing a backlash.
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Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
Media outlets report on news from Minnesota, Tennessee, Connecticut, Texas, New York, Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, California, Ohio, Georgia and Missouri.
Walgreens is looking to pay about $9.4M for pharmacy inventory from Fred’s, while ExpressX wants to buy nonpharmaceutical inventory and take over several leases. Other health and retail news is on Sam's Club starting a health care pilot program, rising drug prices, and Ranitidine recalls.
The new rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services modify discharge planning requirements and allow health systems to share a centralized staff for quality assessment, performance improvement and infection control programs across several hospitals. CMS also finalized another rule that requires that all hospitals have an antibiotic stewardship program. Meanwhile, health care providers are pushing back against a recent Department of Health and Human Services proposal to expand law enforcement's access to patient records during a criminal investigation.
The suicide rate for active-duty troops jumped 34% from 2013 to 2018, according to a new Department of Defense report. The Army and Marine Corps experienced the highest suicide rates, but the trend has touched most of the military services. Only the Air Force saw a decrease. Acting Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville called the report “disheartening and disappointing” in a joint statement.
The drug distributors and pharmacies who are defendants in the opioid litigation argued that U.S. District Court Judge Dan Polster should remove himself from the case because of bias. Polster rejected the motion, writing: "Publicly acknowledging this human toll does not suggest I am biased; it shows that I am human." The massive lawsuit against companies like Walmart, Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid is scheduled to start on Oct. 21 in Cleveland.
The news service is seeking copies of 90 government audits of Medicare Advantage health plans conducted for 2011, 2012 and 2013 but never made public. News on Medicare Advantage comes from Florida as well.
The Trump administration and California are in an escalating fight over a range of issues, including homelessness, the environment and immigration. Yesterday, a letter from EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler gave Gov. Gavin Newsom 30 days to address the environmental issues. Newsom spokesman Nathan Click said: "This is not about clean air, clean water or helping our state with homelessness. This is political retribution against California, plain and simple."
National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins says the grant “represents the urgency of this crisis.” In other news, the inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services says NIH should set up better vetting processes to guard against foreign influence; the Food and Drug Administration issues guidelines for regulating some digital diagnostic equipment; HHS' new policy for distributing livers for transplants survives one court challenge; and the FDA criticizes a drugmaker for not being more transparent about the side effects of its insomnia pill.
The automaker told the union after it went on strike Sept. 16 that it was kicking health care costs to the union, a common move during an autoworkers strike but one that UAW leaders said blindsided them.
In the Democratic presidential race, California and its liberal policies, that are at odds with the Trump administration are serving as a proxy for the direction candidates would like to take the nation, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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