Affordable Care Act, Medicare, GAO

The Fall 2023 Unified Agenda - Implications for 2024

Venable LLP on 1/12/2024

On December 6, the Biden administration released its Fall 2023 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. A unified agenda is issued in the spring and fall each year; it outlines federal agencies' areas of focus...more

Washington Healthcare Update - October 2021 #2

McGuireWoods Consulting on 10/12/2021

This week in Washington: Reconciliation delayed; short-term debt ceiling fix passed....more

Healthcare & Life Sciences: Drug Pricing Digest - June 2021 #2

Latham & Watkins LLP on 6/22/2021

Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Care Act: On June 17, 2021, the Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 to dismiss for lack of standing a challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) brought by Texas and other states. The states had...more

The Courts and Healthcare Policy - April 2021

McGuireWoods Consulting on 4/28/2021

2020 saw the courts continuing to play an important role in health policy with several notable lawsuits related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Several other Trump administration policies were challenged, including Medicare...more

Washington Healthcare Update - April 2021 #3

McGuireWoods Consulting on 4/27/2021

This week in Washington: Andrea Palm’s nomination for HHS Deputy Secretary Advances out of Senate Finance Committee, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure’s nomination deadlocked....more

Washington Healthcare Update May 2019 #2

McGuireWoods Consulting on 5/14/2019

This week in Washington: House to hold hearings on PFAS contamination and exposure, the maternal mortality crisis and single-payer issues....more

Washington Healthcare Update February 2019 #1

McGuireWoods Consulting on 2/5/2019

Coming Week’s Highlights: State of the Union scheduled for Feb. 5; House committees continue discussion on pre-existing conditions....more

Washington Healthcare Update: January 2019 #3

McGuireWoods Consulting on 1/23/2019

This Week: The government shutdown continues; Congress finishes organizing and finalizing committee members and begins to focus on the issues. Concern has been raised that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation...more

Washington Healthcare Update

McGuireWoods Consulting on 11/20/2018

Congress - House - Likely New Health Leadership - With the change in control of the House of Representatives in the next Congress, there will be “new” faces leading the health care agenda....more

Health Care Policy Newsletter - July 2018 #4

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/30/2018

Foley & Lardner LLP’s Bipartisan Public Policy Team is pleased to share this week’s “Public Policy Health Care Newsletter” in which we compile the latest health care policy news and legislation. Please note that the next...more

Health Care Policy Newsletter - July 2018 pt 2

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/16/2018

Foley & Lardner LLP’s (“Foley”) Bipartisan Public Policy Team is pleased to share our “Public Policy Weekly* Health Care Newsletter” in which we compile the latest Health Care policy news and legislation. *Please note that we...more

Health Care Policy Newsletter - June 2018

Foley & Lardner LLP on 6/12/2018

Foley’s Bipartisan Public Policy Team is pleased to share our “Public Policy Health Care Newsletter” in which we compile the latest health care policy news and legislation. *Please note that we publish this newsletter only...more

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

BakerHostetler on 11/28/2017

Lawmakers returning to Capitol Hill this week after the Thanksgiving recess face a daunting series of tax and budget deadlines that will set the stage for how Congress addresses year-end healthcare priorities. That...more

GAO Report: Medicare Reimbursement Policies Impede Telehealth Adoption

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 4/27/2017

Although telehealth has the potential to improve or maintain quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries, payment and coverage restrictions create barriers that prevent providers from fully utilizing telehealth technologies....more

Washington Healthcare Update

McGuireWoods LLP on 10/5/2016

This Week: Congress funds the government until Dec. 9. 1. Congress - Continuing Resolution Passes: Funds Zika and Opioid Legislation - On Sept. 28, Congress passed a Continuing Resolution to fund the...more

Washington Healthcare Update

McGuireWoods LLP on 9/20/2016

1. Congress - House of Representatives - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leaders Send Letter to HHS OIG Concerning NIH Grant on Traumatic Brain Injury - On Sept. 15, Republican leaders of the...more

A&B Healthcare Week in Review

Alston & Bird on 5/18/2016

I. REGULATIONS, NOTICES, & GUIDANCE - On May 6, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an interim final rule entitled, “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Amendments to Special...more

Washington Healthcare Update

McGuireWoods LLP on 3/29/2016

This Week: The Affordable Care Act turned 6 years old on March 23... Four in ten voters say health care is extremely important when picking a President, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation’s new tracking poll......more

Washington Healthcare Update

McGuireWoods LLP on 3/22/2016

This Week: Medicaid program takes financial hits as the House looks for “savers” and acts on a budget... while the Senate sees no reason to do a budget... The Senate focuses on ACA oversight and mental health and opioid abuse...more

Washington Healthcare Update

McGuireWoods LLP on 1/20/2016

This Week: The House is not in session this week... The Senate returns today... Committees in the Senate will hold hearings on co-ops and mental health... Vice President Biden will attend the World Economic Forum in...more

Washington Healthcare Update

McGuireWoods LLP on 12/16/2015

This Week: Congress unable to come to agreement on funding the government past Dec. 11 so a short-term funding bill was passed to give more time for negotiations... Tax extenders still being discussed as a vehicle for a...more

Health Care Update - October 2015

Mintz - ML Strategies on 10/20/2015

Cuts in Mandatory Entitlement Programs Center of Budget Negotiations: As budget negotiators from both sides of the Hill come together to work out a two-year budget deal, determining how sequestration relief will be paid for...more

GAO Releases Report on Initial Results of CMS’s Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program

King & Spalding on 10/14/2015

The U.S. Government and Accountability Office (GAO) issued an October 2015 report to congressional committees concluding that the initial results of the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) program show “no apparent shift”...more

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights - September 2015 #4

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 9/23/2015

The Massachusetts Marketplace takes steps to ease consumer confusion by reducing choice among QHPs; North Carolina appears poised to pass Medicaid reform legislation; and bipartisan support is gaining for defining businesses...more

Washington Healthcare Update

McGuireWoods LLP on 8/25/2015

This Week: FDA Begins Device User Fee Talks with Patients and Consumers Sept. 15... CMS Extends Partial Enforcement Delay of Two-Midnight Policy Through 2015... Alaska Legislature Sues Governor Over Medicaid Expansion....more

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