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The Health Resources and Services Administration seeks input through Oct. 9 on how best to conceptualize and measure access to health care in rural communities as the Department of Health and Human Services’ Rural Health Task Force considers policy changes to meet their needs.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response will provide $23 million for Merck to produce additional doses of its investigational Ebola vaccine over the next year as part of the international response to the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and for domestic biodefense preparedness.

The number of U.S. residents misusing pain relievers fell by 11% in 2018, to about 9.9 million, according to the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program today awarded a health technology company $4.6 million in initial funding to provide genetic counseling to program participants who wish to receive genomic data.

Alaska Gov. Michael Dunleavy Monday vetoed state appropriations that would have restored $50 million in Medicaid funding cuts for fiscal year 2020.

The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved a new antibiotic to treat adults with community-acquired bacterial pneumonia.

The number of U.S. hospitals with an antibiotic stewardship program that meets all core elements recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention almost doubled between 2014 and 2017 to 3,816, according to a new report by the CDC.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to update the overall hospital quality star ratings at Hospital Compare in early 2020, but wait until 2021 to update the star ratings methodology, the agency announced today.

The departments of Health and Human Services and the Treasury Friday approved a Section 1332 waiver for Montana to implement a five-year reinsurance program for its individual health insurance market beginning in 2020.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday

The Health Resources & Services Administration recently released a guide to help rural hospitals and other health care providers together identify and address the health needs in their communities.

More than 230,000 people have enrolled in the All of Us Research Program since it opened last May, 175,000 of whom have completed the core protocol, according to an update on the program published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine.

When invited to play a larger role in their own care, many patients welcome the chance — and results show that patient engagement, in turn, improves outcomes.

HHS’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center urged health care organizations to install patches to protect their Windows systems against DejaBlue.

Public or nonprofit rural organizations can apply through Nov. 25 for funding to support integrated rural health care networks.

A typical family of four with large employer health coverage spent $7,726 on premiums and cost sharing in 2018, according to an analysis released this week.

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Thirteen states yesterday filed a lawsuit challenging a Department of Homeland Security final rule limiting the ability of legal immigrants to adjust or extend their immigration status or gain full citizenship based on their prospective receipt of public benefits.

Beginning with open enrollment for plan year 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will require all health insurance exchanges to display its star rating for each qualified health plan.

Currently available public hospital quality rating systems frequently offer conflicting results, which may mislead stakeholders relying on the ratings to identify top-performing hospitals.