Health & Fitness

Biden-Harris Administration Proposes to Protect People with Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Coverage from Predatory Marketing, Promote Healthy Competition, and Increase Access to Behavioral...

The Biden-Harris Administration is proposing important steps to strengthen Medicare Advantage and the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program (Part D). As part of his Bidenomics agenda, President Biden has worked to increase competition in the health care industry and other sectors, lower costs for families, and make sure every American has access to affordable, high-quality health care. 

The US infant mortality rate rose last year. The CDC says it’s the largest increase in two decades

The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year — the largest increase in two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Biden-Harris Administration Advances Efforts to Improve the Surprise Billing Payment Dispute Process

The Biden-Harris Administration (the Administration), through the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and the Treasury (the Departments), along with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), released a proposed rule on the No Surprises Act’s Federal independent dispute resolution (IDR) process.

CMS Roundup (Oct. 20, 2023)

the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides an at-a-glance summary of news from around the agency.

The growing gap between federal food aid and those most impacted

Food insecurity remains a crisis for families across the country. Yet something unexpected is showing up in the data from federal food benefit programs.

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