Highlights this week: Healthcare legislative priorities are caught up in a separate spending debate that could lead to a partial government shutdown; some GOP lawmakers push back on Trump’s Part B pilot program; a key...more
When Republicans muscled the Tax Cut and Jobs Act through Congress in late 2017, all Democrats could do was howl from the sidelines. Procedurally, Republicans didn’t need Democrats’ support to approve the sweeping tax...more
Highlights this week: Democrats’ takeover of the House will yield big changes for healthcare policy in 2019; several GOP lawmakers active in healthcare policy are defeated; pharma pushes for Part D changes in the lame duck;...more
11/13/2018
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Medicare ,
Medicare Part A ,
Medicare Part D ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drug Coverage
Democrats’ slender majority in the House next year will have an outsized impact on healthcare policy and healthcare stakeholders in 2019 and beyond. From potential bipartisan deals on prescription drug prices to Democrats’...more
Democrats capitalized on President Donald Trump’s unpopularity in suburban districts to capture the House majority, but the president helped turn out Republican voters in states he won two years ago to add to the GOP’s Senate...more
The Trump administration announced Sunday night that trade ministers from the United States, Mexico and Canada had reached agreement on revisions to the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, the framework for $1.2...more
The House today is likely to approve legislation to make permanent the individual and small-business tax cuts that Congress enacted in 2017, but the Senate won’t consider the measure before the November midterm elections....more
Four months after the Supreme Court struck down a federal law banning states from authorizing sports betting, a House panel Thursday will examine how states are legalizing gambling on football, baseball and other sporting...more
The House on Wednesday gave final congressional approval to a fiscal 2019 spending bill covering 70 percent of the government’s discretionary operations, and President Donald Trump said he would sign it into law – temporarily...more
House and Senate leaders Wednesday agreed to sweeping new legislation to respond to the national opioid epidemic, including authorizing $8 billion in grant programs for states, expanding access to prevention and treatment,...more
Absent an unpredictable event at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, Republicans intend to move quickly to advance Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court....more
Included this week is an update on congressional efforts to finish opioids response legislation; efforts by pharmaceutical manufacturers to change discounts they are required to provide Medicare beneficiaries in the Part D...more
The Senate this week overwhelmingly approved legislation to address the opioid crisis, and now Congress is racing to cobble together a final measure that could pass before the midterm elections in November....more
Featured in this week’s Update, the Senate votes on September 17, 2018 on opioids legislation (the House is not in session this week); Congress reaches an agreement on fiscal 2019 healthcare funding; the pharma industry last...more
Building off of last year’s sweeping tax overhaul, the House Ways and Means Committee approved legislation that would make key provisions of that law permanent.
But while most of the tax policies endorsed by the committee...more
This week’s “Capitol Hill Healthcare Update” includes the latest on a pending Senate vote on opioid legislation as Congress races to enact a response to the crisis before the November election; the Senate votes to expand...more
9/11/2018
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Drug Pricing ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Part D ,
Opioid ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drugs
This week’s “Capitol Hill Healthcare Update” includes the latest on Congress reconvening after a summer break and facing near-term deadlines on government funding, including for healthcare agencies and programs; whether...more
President Donald Trump announced today that the United States and Mexico agreed in concept to overhaul portions of the North American Free Trade Agreement, but Congress won’t be able to ratify the deal until next year – under...more
The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin confirmation hearings Sept. 4 on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said the hearings will occur over multiple days early...more
Congress wants to green-light federal standards for self-driving vehicles, but questions over safety and added infrastructure costs have some lawmakers pumping the brakes....more
Last month the House overwhelmingly approved a package of rifle-shot changes to financial services laws, but competing priorities and election-year politics are complicating its consideration in the Senate....more
President Donald Trump on Monday renewed threats to shut down the government if Congress doesn’t approve billions of dollars for border security, even as Republican leaders on Capitol Hill implored Trump to avoid budget...more
A key House Republican on Monday released a sweeping proposal to upgrade the country’s infrastructure, but the plan isn’t likely to kick-start action in Congress on renovating highways and waterways as lawmakers remain...more
This week’s “Capitol Hill Healthcare Update” includes the latest on a series of healthcare bills scheduled for House votes, including one to repeal the medical device tax; Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott...more
7/24/2018
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Flexible Savings Accounts (FSAs) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Health Savings Accounts ,
Medical Device Tax ,
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization (MACRA) ,
MIPS ,
National Institute of Health (NIH) ,
Pharmacies ,
Repeal
HOUSE PANEL TO EXAMINE POTENTIAL CHANGES TO STARK LAW -
Senior Health and Human Services (HHS) officials are scheduled to testify this week before a House subcommittee examining whether laws governing physician...more
7/17/2018
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Savings Accounts ,
Medicare ,
Physicians ,
Self-Referral ,
Stark Law