Humana is providing a gift of $110,000 for first-year funding to support the NOBC’s Mentoring for Success program, which will match 50 nursing students with 50 mentors who work as nurses for Humana. The mentoring program gets underway in early 2026.
In light of the impending expiration of the Medicare telehealth waiver on January 30, the American Medical Association released a pivotal issue brief urging Congress to enact permanent authorization of Medicare telehealth services and end the repeated cycle of temporary extensions that have undermined reliable access to virtual care.
As the new year quickly approaches, the American Medical Association (AMA) is offering 10 recommendations to help Americans make the most impactful, long-lasting improvements to their health in 2026 and beyond.
As the end date for the Accountable Care Organizations Realizing Equity Access and Community Health Model draws near, CMS is developing its next total cost of care model. NAACOS has shared insights and suggestions with colleagues from CMS to draw inspiration from past success and lessons learned to build a new model that helps advance the transition to value-based care in Medicare.
Through this RFI, HHS is inviting stakeholders to provide feedback on how the Department can use its regulatory, reimbursement, and research & development levers across all of HHS to enable AI adoption to propel the American health care system forward.
AHRQ’s Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care has released a new suite of tools designed to make behavioral health integration more accessible, effective, and sustainable. These updated resources offer practical guidance, partnerships, and evidence-based strategies to help primary care teams strengthen whole-person care and better support patients’ mental health needs.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its AI Strategy, the next phase of the Department’s transformative initiative to make artificial intelligence available to the federal workforce, integrating it across internal operations, research, and public health.
A new collaboration among nine major U.S. health systems from the American Telemedicine Association Center of Digital Excellence shows that virtual care is largely substitutive, replacing office visits rather than adding new ones.
The new policies adopted on the final day of voting at the AMA Interim Meeting include advocating for funding to support school-based mental health, removing barriers to improve access to opioid use disorder medications, improving health care for veterans, and protecting health care professionals from ionizing radiation.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced significant action to make it faster and less costly to develop biosimilar medicines, which are lower-cost “generic” alternatives to biologic drugs that treat serious and chronic diseases. In a new draft guidance, the FDA proposes major updates to simplify biosimilarity studies and reduce unnecessary clinical testing.
Day 42 of the Telehealth Shutdown: ATA Action urges immediate passage of legislation to restore Medicare telehealth coverage and Acute Hospital Care at Home program.
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