McDermott+ is pleased to bring you Regs & Eggs, a weekly Regulatory Affairs blog by Jeffrey Davis. August 21, 2025 – Within the next few weeks, the Trump administration is expected to issue the second Make America Healthy...more
8/22/2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Recently, the Trump administration took steps toward implementing one of its major priorities: improving price transparency. As discussed in a previous Regs & Eggs blog post, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) on...more
5/29/2025
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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
While much of Washington, DC’s attention this week has been focused on congressional action around budget reconciliation, including proposed changes to the Medicaid program, the White House also made news with release of a...more
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
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To state the obvious, a lot has happened in healthcare over the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term. But how much? ...more
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
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
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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
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Key Takeaways -
- CMS is expected to issue the 2026 final rate notice for Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D plans by April 7, 2025.
- The January 2025 advance notice proposed policies that would increase payments to MA...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center made headlines last week by announcing that it would end eight models early. The Innovation Center put out a fact sheet explaining its rationale behind...more
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
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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
The Trump administration is beginning to lay out its regulatory (and deregulatory) priorities, and on February 25, 2025, the administration spotlighted one of those priorities in an executive order on price transparency....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
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It’s been a busy week in the health policy world, and there are many topics that Regs & Eggs can (and probably will eventually) focus on, including the impact of the reductions in staff at the US Department of Health and...more
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
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It is relatively quiet on the healthcare regulatory front. The Trump administration is currently filling out its leadership team within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), with the confirmation process of...more
One of the Biden Administration’s last healthcare regs was a proposed rule that, if finalized, would make significant changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security Rule to...more
1/30/2025
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Over the next several weeks, both the Trump Administration and the 119th Congress will review the “menu” of Biden-era regulations that they may want to rescind or modify. In one of his first orders, President Trump (like...more
1/23/2025
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