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Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

House Republicans will gather tonight for a GOP-only meeting to plot strategy on passing a stopgap budget bill, but a breakdown among key senators on separate immigration legislation has elevated the risk of a government...more

1/17/2018  /  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Health Care Providers , Medicaid , Medicare , Prescription Drugs , Section 340B

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Lawmakers return to Capitol Hill this week ahead of more self-imposed deadlines to resolve a series of thorny healthcare policies, including funding for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the rest of the...more

1/3/2018  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) , Cost-Sharing , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Health Care Providers , Hospitals , Medicaid , Medical Devices , Medicare , Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) , Section 340B

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

SHUTDOWN SHOWDOWN: CHIP, OTHER HEALTH PROVISIONS AT RISK AS DEADLINE NEARS - Renewal of the Children’s Health Insurance Program and a host of other healthcare provisions hang in the balance as congressional Republicans...more

12/19/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) , Drug Pricing , Government Shutdown , Individual Mandate , Orphan Drugs , Section 340B , Tax Credits

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Lawmakers last week approved a stopgap budget bill to keep the government open until Dec. 22, creating a pre-Christmas showdown over a host of spending decisions and key healthcare priorities. Republican leaders on Capitol...more

12/12/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , HELP , Medical Devices , REMS , Section 340B

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Congressional Republicans face a Friday deadline to approve a stopgap budget bill to avert a government shutdown, delaying until later this month key decisions on healthcare priorities like renewing children’s insurance and...more

12/5/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Drug Pricing , Government Shutdown , Individual Mandate , Medicare , Medicare Part B , Medicare Part D , Repeal

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Lawmakers returning to Capitol Hill this week after the Thanksgiving recess face a daunting series of tax and budget deadlines that will set the stage for how Congress addresses year-end healthcare priorities. That...more

11/28/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) , Cost-Sharing , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Drug Pricing , GAO , Health Insurance , HELP , Individual Mandate , Medicare , Medicare Part D , National Institute of Health (NIH) , Opioid , Section 340B

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

The year-end schedules of the Senate HELP and Finance committees just became more clogged, as the two panels will lead the review of President Trump’s nominee to be Health & Human Services (HHS) secretary. Trump announced...more

11/14/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Health Care Providers , Individual Mandate , Pharmaceutical Industry , Tax Credits , Telehealth

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

With congressional Republicans’ efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on hold at least for now, the bipartisan leaders of the Senate HELP Committee are seeking to rekindle their work to shore up the health law’s...more

10/3/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) , Cost-Sharing , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Repeal

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Republican senators pushing a last-ditch effort to overhaul the Affordable Care Act (ACA) say they are within one vote of having the support needed to pass their bill. Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)...more

9/19/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Health Insurance , Legislative Agendas , Medical Devices , Nursing Homes , Repeal

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Delayed Senate Health Vote Boon to GOP or Just Prolonging the Inevitable? Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s announcement that he would delay a key procedural vote scheduled for this week on the Republicans’...more

7/18/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , HRSA , Repeal , Section 340B , Trump Administration , User Fees

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Senate Republican leaders are expected to make a series of changes to the healthcare legislation released Thursday as they scramble to gain the support of at least 50 lawmakers in a showdown vote scheduled for later this...more

6/27/2017  /  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Congressional Budget Office , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Department of Veterans Affairs , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Medical Devices , Pharmaceutical Industry , User Fees

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Senate Republicans return to Washington this week after a 10-day recess facing a key inflection point in their effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as GOP leaders will outline policy options they hope...more

6/6/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Congressional Budget Office , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , HRSA , Medicaid , Repeal , Section 340B , Trump Administration , User Fees

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Congress’s official budget scorekeepers this week will release analysis of the House-approved bill repealing most of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and that data will inform Senate Republicans on a path for passing their...more

5/24/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Congressional Budget Office , Health Care Providers , Health Insurance , Medicaid , Medicaid Expansion , Medicare , Repeal , Trump Administration

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

House Republicans of all ideological stripes say they are committed to rekindling interest in the American Health Care Act (AHCA), but while the interest is real, so too are the policy and political divisions that thwarted...more

4/10/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Health Insurance , Healthcare Reform , Proposed Legislation , Repeal , Trump Administration

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Trump’s speech: Clarity on ACA next steps? President Trump will address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, and the expectation is that he will use the primetime moment to outline – at least in broad strokes – his...more

3/1/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Drug Pricing , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Health Care Providers , Repeal , Trump Administration

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Meeting privately with Senate Republicans to discuss next steps on the ACA was among the first actions taken last week by the new Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Tom Price. But GOP senators left...more

2/27/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Health Care Providers , Medicaid , Medical Devices , Medicare , Medicare Part D , Repeal , Trump Administration

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Three weeks into President Trump’s administration, the Senate on Friday narrowly approved Tom Price as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), elevating the former orthopedic surgeon as Trump’s...more

2/14/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Drug Pricing , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Health Care Providers , Repeal , Trump Administration

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

House Speaker Paul Ryan last week set a deadline of the end of March for repealing most of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as other Republican leaders and conservative rank-and-file lawmakers advocated competing policy...more

2/7/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Health Care Providers , Health Insurance , Medical Devices , Trump Administration

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

At GOP retreat, consensus on healthcare elusive - House and Senate Republicans emerged from a policy retreat last week in Philadelphia with no agreement on next steps in their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable...more

1/31/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , GAO , Health Insurance , Medicaid , Trump Administration

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

A growing number of moderate and conservative Republicans in Congress are voicing concerns about the party’s strategy to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Act) in February but then wait months – and possibly even into 2018 –...more

1/11/2017  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Health Care Providers , Legislative Agendas , Medicaid , Medicare , Repeal , Trump Administration

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

After months of debate and partisan wrangling, the House on Wednesday voted 392-26 to pass the “21st Century Cures” bill designed to accelerate the development of new drugs and medical devices as well as increase federal...more

12/2/2016  /  Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Health Care Providers , Legislative Agendas , Medicaid , Medical Devices , Medicare , National Institute of Health (NIH)

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

Congress completed work last week on a stopgap budget that keeps the government open until a post-election lame-duck voting session in December, when lawmakers are expected to move on legislation dealing with medical...more

10/12/2016  /  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Health Care Providers , Medicare , Medicare Part B

Capitol Hill Update

Bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate last week would require pharmaceutical manufacturers to alert the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) before increasing prices more than 10 percent, continuing...more

9/20/2016  /  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , HELP , Legislative Agendas , Long-Term Care , Medicare , Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization (MACRA)

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) acknowledged publicly last week what has been widely suspected on Capitol Hill – his “21st Century Cures” medical innovation legislation will not pass Congress...more

9/13/2016  /  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Medicare , Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization (MACRA) , Medicare Part A , Medicare Part B , Zika

Congress is Back in Session – So What Now for Healthcare?

With Congress reconvening after a seven-week summer recess, we wanted to provide you with a quick topline of key healthcare issues lawmakers are expected to consider this week. Zika Funding - The Senate voted...more

9/9/2016  /  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Medicare , Medicare Part A , Medicare Part B , Mental Health , Zika
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