July 12, 2021 Report: Telehealth Use Remains 38 Times Higher Than Before the Pandemic The use of telehealth remains about 38 times above pre-pandemic levels, representing between 13 and 17 percent of all office and outpatient services across specialties, according to a new report released last week.
June 24, 2021 HAP's Opioid LAN Conference Identifies Solutions to Fight Epidemic, Need for Regulatory Reform The final day of HAP’s Opioid Learning Action Network (LAN) Capstone Conference focused on the regulatory barriers blocking access to opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment and how Pennsylvania providers are creating a new roadmap to coordinate patient care.
June 23, 2021 PA Hospitals Combat Opioid Epidemic amid COVID-19 Pennsylvania’s hospitals have not lost sight of their shared mission to address the opioid crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 22, 2021 How Hospitals Are Improving Care for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder HAP’s Opioid Learning Action Network’s (LAN) Capstone Conference began Tuesday with a look back at two years of progress treating patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) and new approaches to care that are making a difference in patients’ lives.
June 17, 2021 U.S. Supreme Court Dismisses ACA Challenge Today, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act (ACA), finding that states behind the case did not have legal ground to challenge the health care law.
June 16, 2021 Commonwealth Fund Evaluates Progress, Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage A recent report from the Commonwealth Fund indicated coverage gains from the Affordable Care Act helped reduce U.S. racial and ethnic disparities in health insurance, particularly in states that expanded their Medicaid programs.
June 11, 2021 PA Department of Military and Veterans Affairs Aims to Protect Veterans' Benefits HAP joins the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA) during an awareness campaign to help protect veterans from scams, fraud, and exploitation related to pension poaching and other schemes.
June 03, 2021 New PHC4 Report Outlines Growing Financial Stress for PA Hospitals In its financial analysis of general acute care hospitals for fiscal year (FY) 2020, Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) uncovered a significant drop in the statewide average of total margins (from 6.63% during FY 2019 to 3.93% during FY 2020), as well as the statewide average of operating margins (from 5.61% during FY 2019 to 3.73% during FY 2020).
June 02, 2021 PA Health Insurance Marketplace to Undergo Maintenance to Add ARPA Savings Starting this evening, Pennsylvania’s health insurance marketplace, Pennie, will undergo scheduled maintenance to add savings from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) into consumer accounts. Pennie officials estimate the Pennsylvanians will receive about $270 million in additional subsidies from the ARPA.
May 20, 2021 AHA Report Offers Solutions to Ensure Future of Rural Health A report released this week from the American Hospital Association (AHA) offers solutions to ensure the future of the nation’s rural hospitals and puts a spotlight on Pennsylvania’s Rural Health Model as one promising approach to transform care.