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CT Senate Passes Sweeping Consumer Protection Bill The Connecticut Senate passed an expansive consumer protection bill ( SB 5 ). Among other things, the measure would require service providers such as...
Social Media Warning Label Legislation Catching on in States Although Congress hasn’t responded to former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s call last June to take up legislation requiring...
OR Lawmakers Pass Age Discrimination Bill Oregon’s legislature passed a bill ( HB 3187 ) that would prohibit an employer from requesting an applicant’s age, date of birth or date of graduation...
WI Assembly Passes Multiple Healthcare Bills Wisconsin’s Assembly passed multiple healthcare-related bills with broad bipartisan support. One ( AB 43 ) would allow pharmacists to prescribe birth...
A nightmare may be coming to life for social media companies in Minnesota. There, Democrats in the state Legislature have embraced a pioneering bill, SB 3197 , which seeks to levy the nation’s...
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) signed a bill (HB 5159) expanding oversight of private equity investment in the healthcare sector. The law is the first in the nation to ban “sale leaseback” agreements, through which hospitals sell their real estate to an investment trust and then lease it back from the REIT. Other states including Indiana, Illinois and New York have also approved legislation aimed at increasing transparency in healthcare acquisitions. (PLURIBUS NEWS).
North Dakota has become the first state to offer coverage for glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and gastric inhibitory polypeptide weight loss drugs in individual plans provided under the Affordable Care Act. The expansion of coverage is part of the state’s first update to its essential health benefit benchmark plan since the ACA was implemented in 2015. North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jon Godfread (R) said other states were expected to add weight loss drug coverage to their ACA-backed plans too. (FORUM [FARGO-MOORHEAD))
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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