Affordable Care Act, Public Policy

Window on Washington – Vol. 6, Issue 31

Clark Hill PLC on 8/9/2022

Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. After a busy weekend voting on the reconciliation bill, the Senate is now in recess through Labor Day. The House, in recess since late July, returns this week on...more

President-Elect Biden’s Potential Executive Actions: A Health Care & Life Sciences Perspective

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 11/24/2020

President-elect Biden’s agenda and approach for his first 100 days in office will depend to a large degree on which party controls the United States Senate. Many of the incoming President’s major campaign promises—such as...more

Healthcare Policy Update: Election Edition

Holland & Knight LLP on 11/12/2020

A presidential race called by media outlets for former Vice President Joe Biden, coupled with a diminished Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and a narrowly divided Senate, translates into a federal...more

Overview of President-Elect Biden's Policies

Baker Donelson on 11/12/2020

Below is a broad overview of policies for which President-Elect Biden has indicated support (PDF). It is important to note that, while some of these policies fall under the President's executive power, many will require...more

Trump v. Biden: What Might the Next Four Years Look Like?

K&L Gates LLP on 10/28/2020

Quickly approaching November 3, 2020, we are in the final days of what is expected to be a contentious and consequential presidential election in the United States. With the whirlwind news cycles at the end of the campaign...more

Hospital Price Transparency Rule Upheld

Rivkin Radler LLP on 6/24/2020

On June 23, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled against the American Hospital Association and other associations and individual hospitals that had sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...more

GOP lawsuit hasn’t shoved health care off a cliff — not yet. But ACA in limbo helps nobody.

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 12/23/2019

Insurers feast on uncertainty the way most of us attack a holiday spread. They can relish risk because they know it can mean higher premiums and profits for their dealing with clients’ risks. This is one point to keep in mind...more

Business Council of Alabama and Birmingham Business Alliance Announce Their 2020 Tax/Economic Development Legislative Agendas -...

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 12/10/2019

The influential Business Council of Alabama (BCA), founded in 1985, and the Birmingham Business Alliance (BBA), the state’s oldest and largest chamber of commerce, have each officially approved their 2020 legislative agendas....more

Summer’s discontent: Evidence defies partisans on ACA, Medicaid expansion

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 7/10/2018

The evidence accumulates that partisans’ persistent attacks on the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid run counter to their constituents’ needs and wishes, but will Republicans course-correct or will voters soon force them to?...more

What's New In Washington - April 2018

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 4/12/2018

Congress returned from its spring recess with a host of issues to address—trade, Trump administration nominations and opioid legislation sitting atop the priority list. Given the ongoing data scandal at Facebook, privacy...more

Connecticut District Court Provides Interpretation of ACA Provision - Decision Allows Insurers to Circumvent Hospitals in...

Holland & Knight LLP on 11/28/2017

• The ACA does not prevent insurers from declining to directly reimburse out-of-network hospitals for emergency care, and instead adjudicate and administer claims directly with individual patients, the U.S. District Court for...more

One pig is ousted from the public trough, but what about his health care harms?

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 10/2/2017

Tom Price, the orthopedist and foe of the Affordable Care Act, may have been jettisoned from his job as Health and Human Services secretary, but his agency’s effort to sabotage Obamacare smolders on....more

Congressional Budget Office Releases Report on American Health Care Act

Polsinelli on 3/14/2017

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its cost estimate of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) as reported by the Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce. CBO estimates that AHCA would reduce federal...more

Trump HHS Secretary - Confirmation Process & Next Steps

BCLP on 2/3/2017

Over the past two weeks, Congressman Tom Price, M.D. (R-GA) completed his confirmation hearings before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance as well the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension (HELP) Committees. The...more

Rhetoric and reality: Will GOP strip up to 32 million of health insurance?

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 1/23/2017

As partisans race to fulfill their seven-year political pledge to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, their rhetoric has collided with reality, posing huge questions as to how responsibly they will...more

Health Update - October 2016

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 10/21/2016

Defining and Resolving the Provider Data Dilemma - Editor’s Note: Provider data drives the most fundamental processes in the healthcare system. Inaccurate provider data puts patient care and billions of dollars at risk....more

Obama Signs Bill Making Changes to Affordable Care Act

Baker Donelson on 10/14/2015

On October 7, President Obama signed into law H.R.1624, the Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees Act. The act amends a provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to allow states to opt out of the scheduled expansion...more

Healthcare Costs for the Average Family Have Risen Dramatically

McGuireWoods LLP on 9/16/2015

According to consulting and actuarial firm Milliman’s “2015 Milliman Medical Index,” which measures the cost of healthcare for a typical American family of four receiving coverage from an employer-sponsored preferred provider...more

Polsinelli Podcast - Republicans Gain Control of the U.S. Senate - How That May Impact Health Reform

Polsinelli on 11/5/2014

Republicans gained control of the U.S. Senate winning seats in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Montana, North Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia. This is the first time since 2007 the Senate has gained majority control. How...more

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