Still Protecting Patients through the No Surprises Act
Beginning Jan 1, 2022, the No Surprises Act began protecting consumers from unexpected out-of-network medical bills from emergency room visits, non-e…
Category: My Healthy Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh’s Duquesne Medical School Receives Pre-Accreditation
Moving toward its fall 2024 launch, Duquesne University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM) has received “pre-accreditation status” from the…
HHS Announces New Flexibilities to Slow Medicaid Disenrollments
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on June 12, 2023, new flexibilities to minimize the number of Medicaid and Children…
Pennie ED Discusses Medicaid Unwinding Numbers During Spring Policy Forum
Devon Trolley, Pennie’s new executive director, presented enrollment numbers, 2024 key priorities and initiatives moving forward through the Medicai…
Pennsylvania State House Panel Approves Minimum Wage Hike Bill
The Pennsylvania House Labor and Industry Committee voted 12-9 along party lines to approve legislation that would increase the Commonwealth’s min…
New Brief Addresses Metro-Non-metro Clinician Performance with MIPS
Differences in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Performance of Clinicians in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties in 2018 Mina Shr…
Pennsylvania Rural Health Advocate Receives Doctoral Program Scholarship
Lannette Fetzer, quality improvement coordinator and certified AgriSafe Nurse Scholar in the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health (PORH), is the recipi…
KFF Health News: Find Out How Much Opioid Settlement Cash Your Locality Received
Companies that made, sold, or distributed opioid painkillers are paying out more than $50 billion in settlements over nearly two decades. So far, more…
CMS Announces Model Participants for the Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM)
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is pleased to announce the organizations participating in the Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM). L…
Latest National Rankings for Child Well-Being Show Pennsylvania at 22nd
Pennsylvania ranks 22nd overall in child well-being, according to the 2023 KIDS COUNT® Data Book, a 50-state report of recent household data develope…
