California Assembly Bill 2304, also known as Gabriel's Law, was passed on September 21, 2026. The law was inspired by the 2013 torture and death of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez ...

The letter was released on October 6, 2026. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to inform states about a new state plan benefit. The benefit is based ...

Spring Health expanded the Validation of Ethical and Responsible AI in Mental Health benchmark for mental health to include harm from others.

Illinois to implement CMS instructions to require additional provider organization revalidations beyond those already scheduled.

Shields Health Solutions, a pharmacy operating partner to over 1/3 of U.S. health systems, announced its integrated care model evolution.

SONATA, offering a doctor-led, prevention-focused health care membership, launched in New York; San Francisco, California; and Los Angeles, California. Through deep biological testing, including whole ...

South Carolina received a $167 million federal investment through the federal Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP).

California's Gold Coast Health Plan announced seven recipients of its 2026 Resilience, Innovation, Sustainability and Equity Grant Program.

U.S. veterans age 55 and older with both posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and documented social challenges, including housing instability, financial difficulties, and barriers to health care, had ...

Approximately one in five U.S. children ages 3 to 17 had a parent-reported developmental disability diagnosis in 2023–2024, up from about one in six in 2019–2020. The prevalence increased ...

State Medicaid agencies can use certain substance use disorder (SUD) treatment records they already have to determine whether Medicaid applicants and beneficiaries are excluded from new federal ...

The United States ranked seventh in a 2026 assessment of the 20 most accessible countries for people with disabilities, behind Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.