Reps. Peter Welch (D-VT) and Gregg Harper (R-MS) introduced a bill designed to close a loophole in the 340B drug program that the lawmakers say unfairly allows drug companies to deny legally mandated discounts on orphan drugs to safety-net hospitals and other clinics serving a...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a map of projected county by county participation in the health insurance exchanges for 2018. There are 47 counties projected to have no insurers for the 2018 year, and there are 1,200 counties projected to have only one. There...
More families in small towns and rural areas are enrolled in Medicaid than in urban areas, so rural areas are more likely to feel the effects of any changes to the program, according to a report from health researchers at Georgetown and the University of...
President Trump’s first budget was sent to Capitol Hill last week, and while a few stated that they liked what they saw, it was declared dead on arrival by both Republicans and Democrats. The budget proposes several cuts to many programs within HHS, including more...
The association’s CEO Chip Kahn announced the week with a post touting the benefits of small town hospitals, which he says serve rural communities of about 60 million people. [button link="https://www.fah.org/blog/standing-up-for-rural-hospitals" target="_blank" hover_type="default" text="Check Out FAH’s Infographic"]...