May 15, 2023 States Seek to Lower Costs, Increase Coverage of Mental Health Care With mental health costs rising and insurance coverage uneven, state lawmakers are pursuing various policy actions to ensure people have access to affordable care. State Legislatures News, Policy, Health State Legislatures News
May 11, 2023 Staff Snapshots | Louis Lindstrom An NCSL Q&A with Louis Lindstrom, the deputy director of civic education for the Washington Senate. State Legislatures News, People, Staff Snapshots State Legislatures News
May 11, 2023 New Medicare Designation Could Prevent Closure of Struggling Rural Hospitals To preserve access to important emergency and other outpatient health care in rural communities, Congress created a new Medicare provider type, rural emergency hospital, under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. State Legislatures News, Policy, Health State Legislatures News
May 10, 2023 AI Decision-Making Poses Unique Challenge for State Legislators, Regulators For all the talk about the power of AI (and its ethical implications), the burgeoning technology—once relegated to the pages of science fiction—remains remarkably under-regulated (if not unregulated) in the United States. State Legislatures News, Policy, Technology and Communication State Legislatures News
May 9, 2023 Supreme Court to Decide Case on Power of Regulatory Agencies Supreme Court will reexamine and potentially limit or overturn the so-called Chevron deference, a decades-old doctrine that allows government agencies to interpret statutes whose language is not clear. State Legislatures News, Policy, State-Federal State Legislatures News
May 8, 2023 Happy at Home: Federal Funds Can Help Older Adults Stay Put as They Age Shifting Medicaid spending from institutional to home-based care, a process known as rebalancing, can reduce state costs and let seniors stay at home as they age. State Legislatures News, Policy, Health State Legislatures News