According to an exclusive report from STAT, sometime last year, federal officials decided to redirect billions in funds from the $175 billion CARES Act’s Provider Relief Fund to the “Operation Warp Speed” (OWS) vaccine...more
On February 19, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to serve as the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). If confirmed by the Senate, Brooks-LaSure would be the first...more
On October 20, 2020, CMS approved Nebraska’s Medicaid expansion program – named the “Heritage Health Adult,” or HHA – under Section 1115 of the Social Security Act, creating a new two-tiered system of Medicaid benefits for...more
On July 6, 2020, the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations released its draft Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 funding bill for the Departments of Labor, Education, and HHS (the Bill), which includes several interesting...more
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On June 9, 2020, HHS announced that it will distribute, through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), two new rounds of funding to healthcare providers treating low-income and uninsured patients during the...more
On May 15, 2019, United States District Judge Amy Totenberg ordered HHS to “immediately cease and desist” from further implementing its April 2019 liver allocation policy pending appellate review in Callahan, et al. v. Azar,...more
On December 27, 2018, Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of several associations and hospital plaintiffs, including the American Hospital Association (AHA)...more
On November 13, 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued Advisory Opinion No. 18-14 advising a drug company that its proposal to provide a drug to inpatients without charge...more
On September 27, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to review the D.C. Circuit’s decision in favor of hospitals in Allina Health Services, et al. v. Price, 863 F.3d 937 (D.C. Cir. 2017) (Allina II).The Court’s...more