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An Updated Look at the Federal Health Care Policy Legislative Landscape: Opportunity for Action or ‘Groundhog Day’?

With Congress again delaying full resolution of fiscal year 2024 (FY24) federal spending legislation, now until at least early March, health care stakeholders are once again left waiting to resolve several priority issues. ...more

1/25/2024 / Medicare , Pharmaceutical Industry , Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) , Prescription Drugs

CMS Annual Physician Fee Schedule Updates: Effects on Telehealth Services

The annual Medicare physician payment rule is upon us, proposed July 13, 2023, for calendar year (CY) 2024 and open for public comment through September 11. Each year, the couple-of-thousand-page rule makes modifications to...more

7/28/2023 / Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Health Care Providers , Medicare , Physician Fee Schedule , Physicians , Telehealth

What to Know Before Getting Back to the Business of Health Care: FY2023 Omnibus Spending Bill

In late December, Congress passed and President Biden signed into law a $1.7 trillion year-end omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government through FY2023. This alert summarizes the notable health policies and...more

1/6/2023 / HDHPs , Health Insurance , Health Savings Accounts , Medicaid , Medicare , Mental Health , Substance Abuse

Fall 2022 Federal Healthcare Legislative Landscape

With President Biden signing the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law on August 16, the next big question is what the last third of 2022 will bring. Enacting the IRA takes the “will it or won’t it happen” issue of...more

8/26/2022 / Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) , Medicare , Telehealth , User Fees

Outlook for the 2022 Federal Health Legislative Landscape

As the 117th Congress moves into its second legislative session, there is no shortage of health care policy issues dotting the landscape. The COVID-19 pandemic, legislative gridlock and a 2021 that was largely locked down by...more

1/11/2022 / Coronavirus/COVID-19 , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Medicaid , Medicare , PDUFA , Prescription Drugs , Telehealth , User Fees

The American Telemedicine Association Leads the Industry Commenting on Medicare Updates to Telehealth Policy

Faegre Drinker professionals Megan Herber, Sarah-Lloyd Stevenson and Libby Baney provide ongoing support to the American Telemedicine Association’s (ATA) policy work. This week, the comment period closed for the calendar...more

10/8/2020 / Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Health Care Providers , Medicare , Physician Fee Schedule , Telehealth , Telemedicine

New CMS Regulation Proposes Another Set of Plan-Friendly Tweaks to Medicare Advantage

On February 5, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed several interesting tweaks to the Medicare Advantage (MA) and Medicare Part D programs through an 895-page proposed regulation, Contract Year 2021...more

2/12/2020 / Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Medicare , Medicare Advantage , Medicare Part D , Prescription Drugs

The Election’s Impact on Health Care Interests

The results of the midterm elections will bring about a significant change to the federal health care policy landscape in 2019. Democratic control of the House of Representatives will effectively end any legislative...more

11/8/2018 / Affordable Care Act , Association Health Plans , Health Insurance , Healthcare Reform , Medicaid , Medicare , Trump Administration

Megan Herber

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

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