DE Under 3: OFCCP’s Congressional Budget Justification Is Chock-Full of Insights Into the Agency’s Plans & Past Performance
In a rare act of bipartisanship, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., introduced on July 23rd a chairman’s mark, the Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act (PDPRA)...more
Yesterday (December 11, 2018), the House passed H.R. 7217, the Improving Medicaid Programs and Opportunities for Eligible Beneficiaries (IMPROVE) Act. The Senate is expected to vote on the IMPROVE Act sometime next week. A...more
Congress - Senate - Senate Vote Fails to Block Trump Administration’s Short-Term Health Plans - On Oct. 10, the Senate failed to block the Trump administration’s expansion of short-term insurance plans. The...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Recess Week. Both the House and Senate are in recess this week. Opioid Legislation. Majority Leader McCarthy has said that the House is planning to consider its expansive...more
As passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, the American Health Care Act (AHCA) would include sweeping reforms to current healthcare payment systems and insurance markets. While these reforms are estimated to reduce the...more
Rhode Island's Medicaid reforms will save the State $75 million this year; HHS finds that Medicaid expansion improves behavioral healthcare; and California's Marketplace may exclude poor performing hospitals from its QHP...more
On November 2, 2015, President Obama signed into law H.R. 1314, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (the "Act"), which significantly changes Medicare reimbursement for off-campus hospital services. The Act, which Congress...more