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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] What Will the Midterm Elections Mean for Health Care? - September 28th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

Americans are strongly focused on the upcoming midterm elections. An NBC News survey shows that 68% of Republicans and 66% of Democrats are expressing high interest in the midterms. Which issues are most critical to voters...more

Payne & Fears

The Many Unpleasant Surprises in the No Surprises Act Regulations

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The Federal No Surprises Act (“Act”), which goes into effect on January 1, 2022, contains provisions designed to protect insured patients from unexpected hospital and physician bills when they receive emergency services in an...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

The Manatt State Cost Containment Update - October 2021: Health Data Corner

The Health Data Corner compiles the latest state health care data capacity innovations and policy developments, as well as showcases novel data analytic use cases emerging from states. Other developments featured here include...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

[Podcast] Health Equity – Two Perspectives

In this new episode of OnAir: Health Care, Akin Gump health care senior policy advisor Matthew Hittle and consultant Dr. Mario Ramirez welcome House Ways and Means Committee health counsel Orriel Richardson and National...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - March 2021

IN THIS ISSUE - As patients struggle with unreal prices, health reformers zero in on hospitals - Smart ways to negotiate a bill down - With public outcry rising on health costs, governments and employers are...more

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

Vermont Health Care Update | Week 18

House committees consider Interstate Nurse Licensure Compact  - The House Health Care and Government Operations Committees held separate hearings on Tuesday on S.125, a bill that allows Vermont to join the Interstate Nurse...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Drug Pricing Concerns Drive Continued DOJ Focus on Life Sciences Companies

In 2019, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) enforcement activity targeting drug and device manufacturers jumped sharply over the prior year, reflecting an increased focus on fraud and abuse in the life sciences sector. More...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

[Podcast] What's New In Washington: What Congress Is Doing About Drug Pricing and Surprise Medical Billing

In this episode, Akin Gump health care and life sciences senior counsel Taylor Jones and public law and policy senior policy advisor Julie Nolan discuss draft legislation currently on Capitol Hill focusing on drug pricing and...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Hospital tries to stick ER nurse with $1 million in debt for her preemie’s care

It’s the price and cost problem, stupid. That’s a fictitious but new tattoo that voters might want politicians to take up as they consider the many major problems with the American health care system, especially as yet more...more

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Beltway Buzz - October 2019 #3

Washington Nationals Stay in the Fight. The Washington Nationals are heading to the World Series for the first time ever, and the Buzz is shocked - shocked! - that members of Congress are jumping on the bandwagon and looking...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

$14k to treat iron-poor blood? That’s rich. As is politicians’ health care frenzy.

Iron poor blood? For many of a certain age, mere mention of that phrase conjures the major advertising campaigns of yore for a popular, over-the-counter nostrum called Geritol. The tonic is still around and sells for less...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CBO Report Shows Senate’s Bipartisan Bill on Surprise Billing, Drug Prices, Transparency, and More Would Result in Deficit...

On July 16, 2019, the Congressional Budget Office (“CBO”) released a Cost Estimate for Senate Bill S. 1895, the “Lower Health Care Costs Act.” The bipartisan bill, introduced June 19, 2019, intends to end surprise medical...more

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Congress Moves Forward on Legislation to End Surprise Medical Bills

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The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee recently voted to advance bipartisan legislation, called the Lower Health Care Costs Act (the Act), aimed at, among other things, curbing surprise medical bills. ...more

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Congress and White House find a bipartisan target in medical bills and prices

Doctors, hospitals, health insurers, and Big Pharma have become so abusive to patients with their billing and pricing that they may have accomplished what many consider a political impossibility ?  angering Democrats and...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

ML Strategies Health Care Preview - May 2019 #3

This week, all is quiet in the Senate as stakeholders await the release of the highly anticipated cost-containment package that is being developed by the HELP and Finance committees. While the details are not yet public – a...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

ML Strategies Health Care Preview - April 2019

This week, Congress is keeping its eye on drug pricing with a reported hearing in the House Ways & Means Committee. This comes on the heels of the full E&C Committee advancing six pieces of bipartisan legislation for full...more

Holland & Knight LLP

House, Senate Proposals to Extend Funding for the Federal Government

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Congress moved one step closer to avoiding a government shutdown on Feb. 6, voting overwhelmingly (245-182) to pass a short-term, GOP-backed government funding bill (text; section-by-section) that would keep the federal...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Trump Administration: 2017 Recap and 2018 Outlook

On January 20, 2017, businessman Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States following a contentious and unconventional 2016 presidential election. Republicans also successfully maintained control...more

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