Lawmakers last week approved a stopgap budget bill to keep the government open until Dec. 22, creating a pre-Christmas showdown over a host of spending decisions and key healthcare priorities. Republican leaders on Capitol...more
Fraud and Abuse 2017: Understanding Trends and Avoiding Actions - Editor’s Note: In a recent webinar for Bloomberg BNA, Manatt examined game-changing fraud and abuse trends and cases—and revealed strategies for avoiding...more
Senate Republicans face a key procedural vote this week that would allow for debate of their healthcare legislation, but significant uncertainty remains about whether GOP senators can meet that procedural hurdle, what the...more
Although House Republicans made progress on bridging ideological differences over how to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), GOP leaders say not to expect a vote this week as Congress faces a more immediate deadline: The...more
House Speaker Paul Ryan’s decision to cancel Friday’s vote on the American Health Care Act triggered post-mortem jockeying among vying GOP factions struggling to come to grips with how the party failed to repeal a law it has...more
This Week: Congress and the administration focus on the opioid addiction epidemic... Override of the president’s veto of legislation that would have repealed the Affordable Care Act fails, to no one’s surprise... Senate...more