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July 29, 2015
Issue No. 5 – Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committees
Wayne Turner Issue Brief
Introduced by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Essential Health Benefits (EHB) are a set of ten health care service categories that plans must cover. One of the ten categories of benefits is prescription drugs. On February 20th, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the Notice of…
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July 29, 2015
Issue No. 4 – United States Pharmacopeia Classification System
Michelle Lilienfeld Issue Brief
Introduced by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Essential Health Benefits (EHB) are a set of ten health care service categories that plans must cover. One of the ten categories of benefits is prescription drugs. On February 20th, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the Notice of…
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July 20, 2015
State Recommendations to Include Sexuality Education in Health Care Delivery
Jamille Fields Issue Brief
This brief outlines recommendations that advocates can use to encourage their states to include sexuality education in health care delivery. As discussed within the brief, the medical screening that youth receive has not sufficiently included sexuality education. Sexuality education provided during health care delivery presents the opportunity for personalized…
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June 30, 2015
Lessons From CA: Ensuring Medi-Cal Plans Provide Hepatitis C Treatments
Abbi Coursolle, Kim Lewis, and dfitzgerald Issue Brief
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June 22, 2015
EHB Prescription Drug Standard Issue No. 3 – Mail-Order Pharmacies
Wayne Turner and Shyaam Subramanian Issue Brief
Introduced by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Essential Health Benefits (EHB) are a set of ten health care service categories that plans must cover. One of the ten categories of benefits is prescription drugs. On February 20th, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the Notice of…
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May 29, 2015
Lessons From CA: Essential Health Benefits
Michelle Lilienfeld Issue Brief
Introduced by the Affordable Care Act, the Essential Health Benefits (EHBs) are a set of ten health care service categories that non-grandfathered health plans in the individual and small group markets must cover. States are in the process of making important decisions about the EHBs, therefore this is a…
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