Below is a tracker of healthcare-related executive orders (EOs) issued by the Trump administration, including overviews of each EO and the date each EO was signed. We will regularly update this tracker as additional EOs are...more
8/20/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Grants ,
Fraud Abuse and Waste ,
Government Agencies ,
Government Efficiency ,
Healthcare ,
Life Sciences ,
Mental Health ,
Organized Crime ,
Permits ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Popular ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Public Health ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Supply Chain ,
Trump Administration ,
World Health Organization
Stakeholders in the Medicare value-based care world have without a doubt heard of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs), and alternative payment models (APMs). While all these initiatives...more
8/13/2025
/ Alternative Payment Models (APM) ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Part B ,
MIPS ,
Physician Fee Schedule ,
Physicians ,
Proposed Rules ,
Value-Based Care
Below is a tracker of healthcare-related executive orders (EOs) issued by the Trump administration, including overviews of each EO and the date each EO was signed. We will regularly update this tracker as additional EOs are...more
8/6/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Executive Orders ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Public Health ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Trump Administration
It’s been more than two weeks since the release of the CY 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule. We’ve had a chance to digest our initial helping and now we’re ready for seconds. We thought we would see...more
7/31/2025
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Digital Health ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Insurance Industry ,
Medical Devices ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Fraud ,
Mental Health ,
Technology ,
Telehealth
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued two major regs: the calendar year (CY) 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule and the CY 2026 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS)...more
7/24/2025
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Hospitals ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Medicare ,
Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) ,
Payment Systems ,
Physicians ,
Proposed Rules ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Trump Administration
On July 15, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Calendar Year (CY) 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems Proposed Rule [CMS-1834-P],...more
7/18/2025
/ Ambulatory Surgery Centers ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Medicare ,
Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) ,
Payment Systems ,
Proposed Rules ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements
On July 14, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Calendar Year (CY) 2026 Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Other Revisions to Medicare Part B [CMS-13271]...more
7/17/2025
/ Ambulatory Surgery Centers ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Insurance Industry ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Part B ,
Medicare Shared Savings Program ,
New Regulations ,
Physician Fee Schedule ,
Proposed Rules ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Technology ,
Telehealth
Earlier this week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the calendar year (CY) 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed reg. Stakeholders have highly anticipated the release of this reg, as it...more
7/17/2025
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Healthcare ,
Insurance Industry ,
Medicare ,
MIPS ,
Payment Systems ,
Physician Fee Schedule ,
Physicians ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Proposed Rules ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Technology ,
Telehealth
Many healthcare programs are extended for specific time periods, as short as one or two years or as long as 10, and are usually attached to a larger piece of must-pass legislation. Additionally, while traditional...more
The last week of June was a busy one when it comes to news about prior authorization – a major tool used by health plans and the federal government to manage healthcare utilization. The week started with a commitment from...more
7/10/2025
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Fee-for-Service ,
Fraud ,
Government Agencies ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Advantage ,
Prior Authorization ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Waste
Health plan members of AHIP and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association made news earlier this week when they announced a series of steps that a broad swath of health insurers will take to improve the prior authorization...more
6/26/2025
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Insurance Industry ,
Medicare Advantage ,
New Regulations ,
Prior Authorization ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements
Patient engagement. Information blocking. Interoperability. These buzz words are flying around the health information technology (HIT) world as the Trump administration starts to make its mark on the HIT policy landscape....more
6/18/2025
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Data Privacy ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Digital Health ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Technology ,
Trump Administration
As discussed in last week’s Regs & Eggs blog post, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released additional budget documents to support the department’s fiscal year (FY) 2026 discretionary request....more
6/11/2025
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Budgets ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Federal Budget ,
Fraud Abuse and Waste ,
FTEs ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
MACs ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Part C ,
Medicare Part D ,
Payment Systems ,
Section 340B ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine ,
Value-Based Care
Below is a tracker of healthcare-related executive orders (EOs) issued by the Trump administration, including overviews of each EO and the date each EO was signed. We will regularly update this tracker as additional EOs are...more
5/12/2025
/ Anti-Competitive ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Biologics ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Drug Pricing ,
Educational Institutions ,
Executive Orders ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Loan Forgiveness ,
OSTP ,
Procurement Guidelines ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
State and Local Government ,
Technology Sector ,
Trump Administration ,
World Health Organization
Last Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officially launched the health policy community into reg season, releasing in one fell swoop all the fiscal year (FY) 2026 Medicare proposed regulations for...more
4/17/2025
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Deregulation ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Hospitals ,
Medicare ,
Proposed Rules ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Trump Administration
On April 11, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the fiscal year (FY) 2026 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment...more
This past week, the Trump administration put its first major stamp on the Medicare Advantage (MA) program. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released two final regulatory documents related to MA:
- The...more
4/10/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Drug Pricing ,
Final Rules ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
Medicare Advantage ,
Medicare Part D ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Technology Sector
Game On! 2026 Medicare Fee-for-Service Rulemaking Is About to Tip Off -
It’s March, which means one thing for sports fans: the madness of the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. However, to folks in the...more
3/27/2025
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Final Rules ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Hospitals ,
Medicare ,
Proposed Rules ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Trump Administration
On January 14, 2025, the US Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Treasury (collectively, the Departments), along with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), jointly issued Part 69 of a series of...more
3/18/2025
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Cost-Sharing ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Dispute Resolution ,
Final Rules ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Medicaid ,
New Guidance ,
No Surprises Act (NSA) ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Trump Administration
Below is a tracker of healthcare-related executive orders (EOs) issued by the Trump administration, including overviews of each EO and the date each EO was signed. We will regularly update this tracker as additional EOs are...more
In the health policy world, nothing gets folks like me more “excited” than expecting and then seeing a new healthcare regulation pop up in the Federal Register. While the content of the reg is usually what public stakeholders...more
2/27/2025
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Executive Orders ,
Healthcare ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Medicare ,
Proposed Rules ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Trump Administration
A few weeks ago, Regs & Eggs provided insights into Medicare Advantage (MA), the private insurance option under Medicare, and explored both short- and long-term actions that the Trump administration could take to modify MA...more
2/13/2025
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Insurance Industry ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Advantage ,
Medicare Part D ,
Proposed Rules ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Trump Administration
Earlier this week, Congress released the text of a continuing resolution that includes a more-robust-than-anticipated healthcare package. While the bill’s primary purpose is to keep the government open through March 14, 2025,...more
12/19/2024
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) ,
Congressional Committees ,
Healthcare ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization (MACRA) ,
MIPS ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Physician Fee Schedule ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
The No Surprises Act, a law that ended the practice of “balance billing” by certain out-of-network providers, was enacted as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 on December 27, 2020. While the law passed...more
12/12/2024
/ Billing ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Dispute Resolution ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Legislative Agendas ,
No Surprises Act (NSA) ,
Out of Network Provider ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Surprise Medical Bills ,
Trump Administration
Decisions, decisions, decisions. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Trump Administration will have its hands full making decisions about Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) models...more
12/5/2024
/ ACOs ,
Alternative Payment Models (APM) ,
Biden Administration ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
CMMI ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Shared Savings Program ,
Trump Administration