News 2015
Medicare Announces Coverage for Annual HIV Test
HIV test
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced last week that it has expanded coverage to include one, annual voluntary screening for HIV infection for all adolescent and adult Medicare beneficiaries between the ages of 15 and 65, without regard to perceived risk. Coverage for pregnant Medicare beneficiaries will remain unchanged.
Many People With Substance Abuse Problems May Find Few To Treat Them
A case manager at the West Division Family Health Center in Chicago speaks with a recovering heroin addict. Millions of Americans have insurance or Medicaid coverage for drug and alcohol addiction but may not be able to find providers to help them beat their addictions
The number of people with insurance coverage for alcohol and drug abuse disorders is about to explode at a time there's already a severe shortage of trained behavioral health professionals in many states.
Read more: Many People With Substance Abuse Problems May Find Few To Treat Them
Federal Marketplace More Adept Than States At Enrolling Customers, Study Finds
Elizabeth Carpenter, a Director in the Health Reform Practice at Avalere
Despite its rocky launch, the federal health insurance exchange did better than the exchanges run by individual states at both enrolling new people in Obamacare and hanging onto previous enrollees during the 2015 open enrollment period that ended in February, according to a recent analysis.
Read more: Federal Marketplace More Adept Than States At Enrolling Customers, Study Finds
SAMHSA Funding Opportunity: Targeted Capacity Expansion for Substance Use Disorder Treatment for Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations at High-Risk for HIV/AIDS
A new opportunity for youth at risk
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) is seeking grant applications from community-based organizations (CBOs) or Tribes from areas of high HIV prevalence through its 2015 Targeted Capacity Expansion: Substance Use Disorder Treatment for Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations at High-Risk for HIV/AIDS.
In This Issue
In this issue we run the third in our series about the groundbreaking PrEP research presented at CROI 2015, this time focusing on the PROUD study, which was recently completed in England.