/PRNewswire/ Aetna®, a CVS Health® company (NYSE: CVS), announced it has received approval to expand its existing Illinois Medicare-Medicaid Alignment.
The American Rescue Plan extends a number of Federal COVID-19 pandemic programs, along with making a number of changes to health care programs and providing billions of dollars in new funding to nearly all sectors of the U.S. economy.
Even in Iowa nursing homes where a half-dozen residents or more have died of COVID-19, fewer than half the workers have been vaccinated against the virus, newly disclosed records show.
As part of the American Rescue Plan, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, is providing $424.7 million in funding to more than 4,200 Rural Health Clinics for COVID-19 testing and mitigation. Later this summer, HRSA will issue up to $35.3 million in additional funding to rural clinics that meet eligibility