Medicaid, America's most prominent health insurance program, is a boon for pregnant women, as well as women who are trying to conceive a child. It covers a plethora of reproductive healthcare services, including family planning and pregnancy-related care (prenatal services, childbirth, and postpartum services and care) without cost-sharing. Medicaid law strictly prohibits the states from charging co-payments, deductibles, or other such service charges.
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Lung Cancer Care and Research Not Immune to Socioeconomic, Ethnic, Racial, and Gender-related Factors that Create Disparities
Lung Cancer Care and Research Not Immune to Socioeconomic, Ethnic, Racial, and Gender-related Factors that Create Disparities
Press Briefing at IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer 2020 Singapore
SINGAPORE, Jan. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Several leading international lung cancer researchers at a press today presented compelling new data revealing that factors of race, gender, sexual orientation and income continue to be significant barriers to those living with lung cancer. The press briefing is part of the IASLC’s World Conference on Lung Cancer 2020 Singapore.
January 26, 2021 In the last 10 years, we have witnessed growing negativity regarding mammography screening. Numerous myths have sprung up about mammography, its effectiveness, and its potential complications, such as overdiagnosis.
These unfortunate attitudes appear to be associated with the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force s (USPSTF) revision of mammography screening recommendations no longer recommending mammography screening for women ages 40 to 49.
History of the USPSTF s decision in 2009 Dr. Matt Dyson.
The USPSTF is a volunteer group of independent medical experts with preventive services expertise. Its primary task is making recommendations regarding screening tests, medications, and counseling services to prevent diseases. The USPSTF is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; however, it makes its decisions independently.
9:31 National survey shows only 1/3 used aids to quit
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Rick Lange: Mask-wearing and COVID transmission in the United States.
Elizabeth: What can we do to help those people who continue to smoke?
Rick: And should you discontinue certain hypertensive medicines if you have COVID infection?
Elizabeth: That s what we re talking about this week on TT HealthWatch, your weekly look at the medical headlines from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso. I m Elizabeth Tracey, a Baltimore-based medical journalist.
Rick: And I m Rick Lange, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, where I m also the dean of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine.
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In late October, the Trump Administration, through the Departments of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), the Treasury, and Labor (“Departments”), issued two different rules one implementing the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and the other implementing the Affordable Care Act’s transparency mandate. These rules were part of a rush of health care regulations pushed out the door in the last few months of the Trump Administration.
On October 28, 2020, the Departments released an
interim final rule with request for comment (“IFC”) that, among other things, amends current regulations regarding coverage of preventive health services to implement the requirement under the CARES Act that group health plans and health insurance issuers provide “rapid coverage” of services and vaccines related to the prevention of COVID-19. The IFC also implements