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Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Although the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enjoys broad bipartisan support on Capitol Hill, lawmakers last week sharply disagreed over how to pay for its renewal – signaling that a final vote could be delayed for...more

10/10/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Health Care Providers , Health Insurance , Medicaid , Medicare

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

With congressional Republicans’ efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on hold at least for now, the bipartisan leaders of the Senate HELP Committee are seeking to rekindle their work to shore up the health law’s...more

10/3/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) , Cost-Sharing , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Repeal

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Republicans’ last-ditch effort to overhaul the Affordable Care Act (ACA) suffered potentially fatal blows as GOP senators in recent days voiced either outright opposition to or serious reservations about legislation pushed by...more

9/26/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Cyber Attacks , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Employer Mandates , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Health Insurance , Individual Mandate , Malware , Opioid , Repeal

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Republican senators pushing a last-ditch effort to overhaul the Affordable Care Act (ACA) say they are within one vote of having the support needed to pass their bill. Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)...more

9/19/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Health Insurance , Legislative Agendas , Medical Devices , Nursing Homes , Repeal

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

The chairman of a Senate healthcare committee outlined a key test for stabilizing the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) shaky individual marketplace: Both Republicans and Democrats will have to give a little. That formula has...more

9/12/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Drug Pricing , Health Insurance , Healthcare Reform , Section 340B , Trump Administration

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

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

7/25/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Drug Pricing , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Generic Drugs , IPAB , Pharmaceutical Industry , REMS , Repeal , Trump Administration , User Fees

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Delayed Senate Health Vote Boon to GOP or Just Prolonging the Inevitable? Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s announcement that he would delay a key procedural vote scheduled for this week on the Republicans’...more

7/18/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , HRSA , Repeal , Section 340B , Trump Administration , User Fees

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Senate Reconvenes but No Health Votes Expected This Week - The Senate reconvenes today following the Fourth of July recess, but senators are at least a week away – and perhaps even longer – from voting on legislation to...more

7/11/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , IPAB , Trump Administration , User Fees

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Senate Republican leaders are expected to make a series of changes to the healthcare legislation released Thursday as they scramble to gain the support of at least 50 lawmakers in a showdown vote scheduled for later this...more

6/27/2017  /  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Congressional Budget Office , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Department of Veterans Affairs , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Medical Devices , Pharmaceutical Industry , User Fees

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Senate Republicans continue intra-party discussions on changes to House-passed legislation replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but the lack of consensus is threatening GOP leaders’ pledge to have a bill ready for a vote...more

6/13/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) , Congressional Budget Office , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Senate Republicans return to Washington this week after a 10-day recess facing a key inflection point in their effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as GOP leaders will outline policy options they hope...more

6/6/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Congressional Budget Office , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , HRSA , Medicaid , Repeal , Section 340B , Trump Administration , User Fees

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Legislation reauthorizing FDA user fees for prescription and generic drugs, biosimilars, and medical devices won wide bipartisan approval last week in a Senate committee, teeing up approval by the full Senate, likely after...more

5/19/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Biosimilars , Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) , Congressional Budget Office , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Generic Drugs , National Institute of Health (NIH) , Pharmaceutical Industry , Prescription Drugs

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

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

3/28/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Healthcare Reform , Proposed Legislation , REMS , Repeal , Trump Administration

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Meeting privately with Senate Republicans to discuss next steps on the ACA was among the first actions taken last week by the new Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Tom Price. But GOP senators left...more

2/27/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Health Care Providers , Medicaid , Medical Devices , Medicare , Medicare Part D , Repeal , Trump Administration

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Three weeks into President Trump’s administration, the Senate on Friday narrowly approved Tom Price as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), elevating the former orthopedic surgeon as Trump’s...more

2/14/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Drug Pricing , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Health Care Providers , Repeal , Trump Administration

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

House Speaker Paul Ryan last week set a deadline of the end of March for repealing most of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as other Republican leaders and conservative rank-and-file lawmakers advocated competing policy...more

2/7/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Health Care Providers , Health Insurance , Medical Devices , Trump Administration

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

At GOP retreat, consensus on healthcare elusive - House and Senate Republicans emerged from a policy retreat last week in Philadelphia with no agreement on next steps in their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable...more

1/31/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , GAO , Health Insurance , Medicaid , Trump Administration

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Trump order seeks to undermine ACA - President Donald Trump didn’t mention the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in his inaugural address but later that night he signed a sweeping executive order that directs federal agencies...more

1/27/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Drug Pricing , Health Care Providers , Pharmaceutical Industry , Repeal , Trump Administration

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

The House on Friday gave final congressional approval to a budget blueprint that authorizes separate filibuster-proof legislation Republicans will use next month to repeal much of the Affordable Care Act...more

1/19/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Drug Pricing , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Repeal , Trump Administration

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

A growing number of moderate and conservative Republicans in Congress are voicing concerns about the party’s strategy to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Act) in February but then wait months – and possibly even into 2018 –...more

1/11/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Health Care Providers , Legislative Agendas , Medicaid , Medicare , Repeal , Trump Administration

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

After months of debate and partisan wrangling, the House on Wednesday voted 392-26 to pass the “21st Century Cures” bill designed to accelerate the development of new drugs and medical devices as well as increase federal...more

12/2/2016  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Health Care Providers , Legislative Agendas , Medicaid , Medical Devices , Medicare , National Institute of Health (NIH)

Capitol Hill Update

Bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate last week would require pharmaceutical manufacturers to alert the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) before increasing prices more than 10 percent, continuing...more

9/20/2016  /  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , HELP , Legislative Agendas , Long-Term Care , Medicare , Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization (MACRA)

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) acknowledged publicly last week what has been widely suspected on Capitol Hill – his “21st Century Cures” medical innovation legislation will not pass Congress...more

9/13/2016  /  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Medicare , Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization (MACRA) , Medicare Part A , Medicare Part B , Zika
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