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– CMS will announce that Medicare and Medicaid will receive Covid-19 vaccines that obtain fda emergency approval, POLITICO said.
– Amy Coney Barrett has been sworn in as the new Supreme Court Justice, the third appointed through President Donald Trump after a historic and debatable fight.
– Only six out of 10 hospitals report all required Covid-19 knowledge in HHS, despite warning that they may be expelled from Medicare and Medicaid if they fail to comply.
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EXCLUSIVE: MEDICARE, MEDICAID MUST COVER COVIDES VACCINES – The Trump administration will this week announce a plan to cover the reimbursable prices of Covid-19 vaccines for millions of Americans who get Medicare or Medicaid, Dan Diamond and Adam from politico Cancryn re-covered Monday night.
– Expect the announcement in the next 36 hours: Under the existing rule, Medicare and Medicaid will now cover vaccines that get emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration, another 4 people reported from the existing ad said. policy, which puts millions of Americans at risk of coping with vaccine-related spending.
Regulations, which have been in progress for weeks, will also address other Covid-19-like problems, such as expanding flexibility for care for Medicaid patients through coronavirus.
– SEEMA VERMA had mocked the pending rule in its previous comments this month at the HLTH virtual conference.
“It was very transparent that Congress needs to ensure that Medicare recipients have this vaccine and that there are no cost-sharing,” the CMS administrator said on October 13. “And so, stay tuned, see more of the signature about it. soon. “
THIS IS OFFICIAL: ACB, A REPLACED RBG – Trump swore Monday night to Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, 38 days after the death of former Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg and 8 days before Election Day.
– Republicans took a turn of victory, solidifying a conservative 6-3 majority that can simply vote against the right to abortion and in favor of Trump’s policies (more on that in a moment).
“One of the most impressive applicants for the public in a generation will serve for life in our highest court,” tweeted Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, sharing Barrett’s video with music.
Barrett’s confirmation solidifies a conservative 6-3 majority in the upper court that can last only years . . . or a few weeks, if Joe Biden is elected president, the Senate turns around and Democrats review the design of the court as some progressives demand. .
– What do we do now? The November 10 high court hearing on a legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act will be one of the first primary tests of the new justice system.
Democrats spent weeks warning that Barrett would be the deciding vote to kill Obamacare, underlining his beyond the complaint of Supreme Court President John Roberts’ decision to maintain the ACA in 2012, but at his confirmation hearings, Barrett presented some clues as to how he might fail in cases. about the law of aptitude, saying only that she was not “hostile” towards her, writes Andrew Desiderio of POLITICO.
While the Trump administration supports the challenge, which focuses on whether the entire fitness law falls because Congress has rescised the ACA’s individual mandate, legal experts have largely criticized the arguments, and even some conservative thinkers are asking the court to reject them.
– 220 This is the number of federal judges appointed through Trump who have shown the up to now in the Senate, and which will have an impact long after the 2020 election, Andrew writes.
HHS: 6 HOSPITALS ABOUT 10 SIGNALING ALL COVID-19 – The Trump administration released knowledge Monday and apparently 62% of hospitals report all knowledge about the coronavirus 3 months after the administration’s debatable launch of a new reporting system, says Rachel Roubein of POLITICO.
HHS has begun publishing knowledge on how hospitals meet assembly knowledge requirements. The resolution that is expected as the Trump administration begins to take strong action against hospitals that do not report daily updates of safe information, such as the number of patients hospitalized with Covid-19.
CMS has announced in the past that hospitals that do not disclose key data in mid-January will be expelled from Medicare and Medicaid, their main funding resources.
WHO JEFE AVERTIT MARK MEADOWS: ABANDONING “CONTROL” IS DANGEROUS – The head of the World Health Organization on Monday suggested to the White House leader reconsider his comments that the United States cannot “control the pandemic. “
“We agree with the staff leader that protecting other vulnerable people is important, but resigning is dangerous,” said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in reaction to Meadows’ questionable comments on Sunday, says Carmen Paun of POLITICO.
Controlling the virus is a component of the response, and governments and citizens make their component, Tedros said. “The virus is dangerous. If released freely, it can wreak havoc,” especially if there are no vaccines or medications at hand. he said.
. . . Protecting other vulnerable people is still necessary in the event of an epidemic, said Mike Ryan, WHO’s head of fitness emergencies, but the challenge begins when looking to identify who he is. Not all other vulnerable people live in nursing homes; most of them are “among us,” he said, adding, “The most productive way to protect these other people is to do everything you can imagine to reduce transmission of this disease at the network level. “
Trump also broke up with his staff leader on Monday and told reporters that he disagreed that the country had surrendered from the pandemic, POLITICO’s Quint Forgey reports.
“Not at all. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Absolutely the opposite. We’ve done a job,” Trump said Monday morning, and he again claimed that the United States was “turning the corner,” as the country set a new record one day for 83010 cases of coronavirus on Friday.
– Meadows is now being criticized for his handling of the virus, Josh Dawsey reports in The Washington Post, writing that the leader has resisted non-public protections like the mask and has tried to divert Trump’s schedule from focusing on the pandemic earlier this year.
TODAY: WARP SPEED LEADERS PUBLISHED – General Gustave Perna, Warp Speed’s chief operating officer, and Matthew Hepburn, the initiative’s vaccine progression manager, will speak at the Heritage Foundation on their efforts. It’s a rare public appearance for men and he comes as Trump. keeps promising that vaccines will arrive soon.
HEALTH HEALTH QUESTIONS IN BOLETINES – Voters in several states and D. C. will vote on fitness issues this year. Abortion is in the survey in two states, Louisiana and Colorado, while recreational drugs are in voting in 3 states. dialysis faces strong opposition from fitness care companies.
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INTERMOUNTAIN, SANFORD AND THE FUSION OF THE HOSPITAL SYSTEM: the largest hospital systems in Utah and South Dakota, respectively, have announced plans to merge during the summer of 2021 into a new nonprofit that would operate in 70 hospitals and employ 89,000 with more than $15 billion in annual revenue, Tucker Doherty Reports.
At an online press conference, hospital leaders promoted their non-unusual rural roots and focused on telefitness services. Mergers have a tendency to raise prices. Sanford Health CEO Kelthrough Krabbenhoft also said the merger would help stabilize the company’s secondary insurance business by merging it with Intermountain’s largest group of registrants.
The merger, if approved through regulators, would be Intermountain’s third in the following year, following similar acquisitions in Nevada and Idaho. Sanford had also tried to merge with the regional hospital system, UnityPoint Health, before canceling the deal last year.
THE FLORIDE FRAPPE TO SNAFU WITH A DRUG IMPORT PLAN – Florida will be the first state to take credit for President Donald Trump’s new plan to allow the importation of drugs from Canada. the state’s $30 million contract to put into effect and administer its import program.
The setback can delay the Florida show for several months, Zachary Brennan writes. But Cowen Research’s pharmaceutical analysts, the delay is “a sign of major problems,” especially since “Canadian officials have made it clear that they do not plan to allow Canadian pharmacies should participate for fear that this will create drug shortages for their citizens.
Vermont, Colorado, Maine, New Hampshire and New Mexico are implementing drug import plans from Canada.
HHS ROTATION – PULSE has heard an intelligent number of existing and previous members communicate about the story of the exodus of hhs-designated people in 2020, and many more designated persons are likely to move forward. on the day of the inauguration if Trump does not win re-election. (POLITICO had counted at least 27 outings since February, but thanks to responses from readers, he realizes that the number beats 30 without problems).
-This point of rotation is general under past administrations, said Jack Kalavritinos, who worked in the administration of George W. Bush and Trump’s director for the HHS Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs before leaving last year.
“Studies and delight show that the maximum number of people appointed to political office, whether deputy secretaries or assistants, hold their positions for two years,” Kalavritinos told PULSE, adding that “leaving before the end of the first term is not unusual, especially if [designated persons] receive opportunities to start the next phase of their careers. “
– PULSE Counters: This HHS is tumultuous, a style that peaked this year but was established earlier in the quarter.
Under Trump, HHS and agencies such as the FDA and CDC have gone through several interim chiefs and chiefs; In the Obama era, those roles were covered through the same designated people in the first period.
In some other example, the Trump-era White House liaison workplace has already toured three, adding two this year, and the paintings remain technically empty. Obama’s-era HHS was based on the same liaison at the White House in the first term, Obama veterans told PULSE.
JENN SHERMAN now at Reservoir Communications Group. Sherman, who in the past served as a spokesperson for the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce and was the Chief Communications Officer for the Surgeon General, is Director of Reservoir.
CHRISTOPHER O’HAGAN lands at the White House Office of Drug Policy. O’Hagan, who in the past was a confidential assistant to the USDA, is now a White House liaison officer with the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Utah Hospital officials warn that they will have to start rationing care amid outbreaks in Covid-19, Erin Alberty, and Sean P. Means write for the Salt Lake Tribune.
The abolition of the Affordable Care Act would be a blow to the health care of Native Americans during the pandemic, the senses say, Tom Udall and Elizabeth Warren on CNN.
Some California officials have broken ties to the program provided through Verily, Google’s sister company focused on health care, due to privacy issues and other complaints, reports Jenny Gold and Rachana Pradhan of KHN.
A CDC report found that many nurses were hospitalized at the start of the pandemic, Erika Edwards writes for NBC News.