This Week in Washington: Congress remains in recess....more
This Week in Washington: Senate Appropriations Committee reports FY 2025 Labor-HHS-Education and Related Agencies appropriations bill out of committee....more
This Week in Washington: House Rules Committee to consider FY2025 Agriculture-FDA and Related Agencies funding bill amendments; MedPAC releases July 2024 data book on Medicare program spending; National drug shortages fall to...more
This Week in Washington: House appropriators release FY2025 topline appropriations levels; Senate Finance Committee releases white paper on Medicare physician payment reforms; House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee...more
On April 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule that will implement for the first time at the national level minimum staffing level requirements for long-term care (LTC) and...more
This Week in Washington: CMS releases SNF minimum staffing standards final rule; Senate HELP Committee chairman requests information on Ozempic and Wegovy pricing; HHS OCR releases final rule concerning HIPAA reproductive...more
In November 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the Calendar Year 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, which reduced reimbursement for physician fee services by 3.4%. The fee cut for...more
This Week in Washington: House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Health holds hearing on a range of legislation concerning public health programs, patient wellbeing and caregiver support; HHS and FTC request...more
This Week in Washington: House Energy and Commerce Committee markup includes 19 healthcare bills; Senate HELP Committee to mark up SUPPORT Act Reauthorization and three other bills; House to vote on Lower Costs, More...more
This Week in Washington: House elects new Speaker; Senate HELP Committee advances nomination of NIH Director nominee; House and Senate resume appropriations work....more
This Week in Washington: Still No Speaker in the House; 2024 Medicare Part B Premiums and Deductibles to Rise....more
This Week in Washington: House stalls on defense spending bill, but begins negotiations among Republicans on appropriations; Senate was expected to move forward on three appropriations bills, but has now stalled; House to...more
On May 17, the House Energy and Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee held a markup of 17 healthcare bills. In particular, the subcommittee advanced legislation that would implement site-neutral payments under Medicare for...more
On April 20, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the release of ownership data for all Medicare-enrolled hospice and home health agencies. This release is consistent with the Department of...more
On April 26, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) strengthened its enforcement of the hospital price transparency rule by implementing three new enforcement measures. These include...more
In its March 2023 report to Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended adjusting the fee-for-service (FFS) base payment rate for acute care hospitals in 2024 by an amount equaling the current...more
On May 27, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it was withdrawing the Securing Updated Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely final rule (SUNSET final rule), which was originally set to take...more
On Feb. 9, 2022, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced S. 3620, the Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act.
The bill proposes to create a Commission on Health Data Use and Privacy...more
On Jan. 13, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court permitted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to enforce its interim final rule requiring many Medicare- and Medicaid-certified providers and suppliers to vaccinate...more
On Nov. 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule to update the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and address other Medicare Part B issues for Calendar Year (CY) 2022. The rule, which goes...more
As McGuireWoods noted in a Sept. 10, 2021, alert, in Sept. 20 and Sept. 23 FAQs, and in Sept. 27 and Oct. 18 alerts, President Biden’s “Path Out of the Pandemic” employee COVID-19 vaccination mandates have three main...more
This week in Washington: Debt ceiling measure signed by President Biden; default averted for at least a month. Discussions about budget reconciliation continue....more
10/19/2021
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Proposed Rules
This week in Washington:
Infrastructure, Executive Order on Anti-competitiveness, House Appropriations Committee Acts on Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill, Senate Budget Committee Democrats Agree on Budget Resolution....more
On July 13, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the annual proposed rule for updating the physician fee schedule and other Medicare Part B services.
Proposed Telehealth Changes Focus on...more
This week in Washington: HHS and CMS nominations move forward....more