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CDC, HHS partner with ADA to present webinar on oral health care access disparities
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Oral Health and the U.S. Public Health Service are partnering with the Medicaid Medicare CHIP Services Dental Association and the ADA to launch the Healthy People 2030 Oral Health Webinar Series. The first webinar, on Aug. 31 from 1 -2 p.m. Eastern time, will highlight …
The Health 202: Trump makes light of coronavirus testing as HHS struggles to spend funds for it
with Paulina Firozi It’s an understatement to say coronavirus testing has been a struggle for President Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services. The agency wasted precious time in February and March when it should have been ramping up testing. Its earliest testing kits failed because of likely contamination. And now it’s not getting funding …
HHS official plans to file whistleblower complaint
Rick Bright, deputy assistant secretary for preparedness and response for Health and Human Services (HHS), listens during a House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., March 8, 2018. Toya Sarno Jordan | Bloomberg via Getty Images A federal vaccine scientist who was ousted from leading an agency dealing with the Covid-19 outbreak will …
HHS whistleblower, Pope, Diamond Princess death
The World Health Organization on Friday increased its coronavirus risk assessment to “very high” as cases outside of China continue to increase. But officials caution the virus can still be contained if the chain of transmission can be broken. “What we see at the moment are linked epidemics of COVID-19 in several countries, but most cases …
HHS Secretary Alexander Azar: ‘I’m still chairman of the task force’ on coronavirus
“I’m still chairman of the task force,” Azar said Wednesday, as a White House news briefing on the coronavirus concluded and Trump and Pence looked on. “Mick Mulvaney has been serving an invaluable role for me as acting chief of staff, helping to coordinate across the government with my colleagues and the whole of government …
The Health 202: Trump craves big action on drug prices to take to the campaign trail
THE PROGNOSIS Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar listens as President Trump delivers a speech about lowering prescription drug prices from the White House Rose Garden in May 2018. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) There may be a modest slowdown this year in the growth of drug prices, but it’s nowhere near the seismic shift President Trump has called for. …
Home health provider received $10.5 million in Medicare overpayments, audit alleges | Health Care
A Michigan-based home health care provider that serves patients in Indiana and Illinois received an estimated $10.5 million in Medicare overpayments during 2014 and 2015, according to a recently released federal audit. The inspector general for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services claims Great Lakes Home Health Services Inc. incorrectly billed Medicare for …
