Posted on August 26, 2011 15:14
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From SAMHSA's Weekly Financing News Pulse: National Edition - August 26, 2011:
In July, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) officials awarded 106 waivers exempting health
plans from the health reform’s annual benefit limit requirement, bringing the
total number of waivers to 1,472. HHS
will stop accepting waiver applications on September 22; however, waivers
granted or renewed by September 22 will run through 2013. In other health
reform news, on August 23, the 8th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced plans to hear oral arguments in Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder’s
(R) challenge of the national health care reform law during the week of October
17. Originally filed last July in U.S. District Court, Lieutenant
Governor Kinders’ suit contends that the law’s individual insurance mandate is
unconstitutional, the law’s expansion of Medicaid could force Missouri to raise
state taxes, and the law improperly alters state officials’ compensation by
changing their health care plan. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals recently rejected the law’s legality, while the 3rd and 6th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals have upheld it.
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Posted on August 19, 2011 14:21
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From SAMHSA's Weekly Financing News Pulse: National Edition - August 26, 2011:
Ohio,
Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia have formed a task force to combat
prescription drug abuse through increased enforcement, treatment, and
prevention activities. Under the
Interstate Prescription Drug Task Force, each state will maintain its own
prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) data but share it with other states
upon request. The task force will focus
on treatment, law enforcement, education, and monitoring. Groups of experts will devise policy
recommendations for each focus area by this fall.
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Posted on August 12, 2011 11:39
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From SAMHSA's Weekly Financing News Pulse: National Edition - August 12, 2011: On August 5, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary
Ken Salazar, and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced a new federal
framework to coordinate substance abuse prevention and treatment among American
Indian and Alaskan Native communities.
Called for under the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010, which President
Obama signed in July 2010, the Memorandum
of Agreement (MOA) describes how an inter-departmental
coordinating council will guide the new federal effort while the U.S. Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Administration’s (SAMHSA) Office of Indian Alcohol and
Substance Abuse will coordinate tribal substance abuse programs at the federal
level.
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