Affordable Care Act, Healthcare, Legislative Agendas

McDermott+ Check-Up – June 18, 2025

McDermott+ on 6/19/2025

THIS WEEK’S DOSE - - Senate Finance Committee Releases Reconciliation Text. The language is subject to change as negotiations continue and the Byrd rule process plays out. - CMS Releases MA Risk Adjustment Audit Methodology...more

Healthcare Preview for the Week of: June 9, 2025

McDermott+ on 6/10/2025

Senate Continues Reconciliation Consideration - This week, Senate consideration of the reconciliation package will continue, and more text will be made public as the process begins to move out from behind closed doors....more

Healthcare Regulatory & Compliance Summit 2025 Recap

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 5/8/2025

Health Policy Fireside Chat: What to Expect from the New Administration - Bill Mathias, Member at Bass, Berry & Sims, engaged in a fireside chat with Colin Roskey, Principal at FHP Strategies, former Deputy Assistant...more

McDermott+ Check-Up: January 24, 2025

McDermott+ on 1/27/2025

Senate Committees Continue Nomination Hearings. The Senate VA Committee held a hearing for VA secretary nominee Doug Collins and subsequently voted for his confirmation with broad bipartisan support. His confirmation vote...more

Holland & Knight Health Dose: January 21, 2025

Holland & Knight LLP on 1/23/2025

Holland & Knight Health Dose Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector....more

This Week From the Hill (January 19 – 25, 2025)

Groom Law Group, Chartered on 1/22/2025

Each week while Congress is in session, our Policy team delivers a key update to highlight a topical benefits, health, or retirement news item from the Hill, such as a newly introduced bill, a summary of a committee hearing,...more

Healthcare Preview for the Week of: December 9, 2024

McDermott+ on 12/10/2024

11 Days Left in Lame Duck - Both houses of Congress are in this week as we approach December 20, the deadline by which Congress must pass a continuing resolution (CR) that will fund the government moving forward. ...more

The Accelerating Kids’ Access to Care Act: Breaking Barriers for Pediatric Patients Across State Lines

ArentFox Schiff on 7/19/2024

In July 2023, US Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), along with US Representatives Lori Trahan (D-MA) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), introduced legislation to improve access to critical care for...more

The Doctor (Fix) Is In: Regulatory Implications of the Minibus Healthcare Package

McDermott+ on 3/7/2024

Last Sunday, Congress released the text of a minibus package, which will likely be signed into law by tomorrow. While the bill’s primary purpose is to keep the government open, it also includes healthcare extenders through...more

McDermottPlus Check-Up: December 1, 2023

McDermott+ on 12/4/2023

CONGRESS - House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee Examines AI. The hearing explored the transformative potential of AI in healthcare, acknowledging its promise in enhancing efficiency, improving patient care and...more

McDermottPlus Check-Up: October 27, 2023

McDermott+ on 10/30/2023

CONGRESS - House Republicans Elect New Speaker. After weeks of turmoil, the House elected Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as the new Speaker of the House on Wednesday with 220 votes secured on the floor. The House is now able to...more

McDermottPlus Check-Up: June 16, 2023

McDermott+ on 6/16/2023

The House and Senate were both in session this week, with healthcare activity continuing at the committee level. The House Energy and Commerce Committee held hearings on the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA)...more

McDermottPlus Check-Up: May 19, 2023

McDermott+ on 5/19/2023

The House and Senate were both in session this week, with significant healthcare activity at the committee level. The House Ways & Means Committee met to discuss healthcare price transparency, and the Ways & Means Health...more

GOP lawsuit hasn’t shoved health care off a cliff — not yet. But ACA in limbo helps nobody.

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 12/23/2019

Insurers feast on uncertainty the way most of us attack a holiday spread. They can relish risk because they know it can mean higher premiums and profits for their dealing with clients’ risks. This is one point to keep in mind...more

ML Strategies Health Care Preview - May 2019 #4

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 5/22/2019

We are a few legislative days from the Memorial Day recess with the trajectory of issues like drug pricing and surprise medical billing still emerging. The House has passed several drug pricing bills in the past month, with...more

ML Strategies Health Care Preview - May 2019 #3

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 5/15/2019

This week, all is quiet in the Senate as stakeholders await the release of the highly anticipated cost-containment package that is being developed by the HELP and Finance committees. While the details are not yet public – a...more

Update to Texas v. United States

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/5/2019

In our December blog post, we discussed Texas v. United States, No. 19-10011 (5th Cir.), a Texas federal district court decision which struck down the entirety of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). The case is being appealed to...more

Health Care Weekly Preview from ML Strategies – March 2019 #2

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 3/29/2019

This week, House Democrats will unveil a sweeping health care bill aimed at lowering premiums and out-of-pocket costs, and to target actions taken by the Administration to undermine the individual market. This comes on the...more

Health Care Weekly Preview from ML Strategies – February 2019 #2

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 2/12/2019

With Valentine’s Day approaching, love may be in the air-but not so much on Capitol Hill. Talks to reach a border security deal ahead of Friday’s deadline broke down over the weekend. At the precipice of another government...more

Health Care Weekly Preview from ML Strategies – February 2019

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 2/5/2019

The long-awaiting safe harbor proposed rule was published last week as the Administration looks to get out in front of the drug pricing debate that is sure to shape the 116th Congress. Under the proposed rule,rebates offered...more

2019 Health Care Industry Outlook

Foley & Lardner LLP on 1/30/2019

A new wave of change is poised to disrupt the way health care is delivered in the United States. This time around, the disruption is coming not from lawmakers or the president, who have struggled to repeal or improve upon...more

Health Care Weekly Preview from ML Strategies – January 2019 #4

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 1/30/2019

The shutdown is over for now and Congress is hitting the ground running this week. Most priorities have been on standby with the shutdown taking center stage, so this week in a sense represents the first week of the 116th...more

Health Care Weekly Preview from ML Strategies – January 2019 #3

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 1/23/2019

The partial government shutdown is on its 31st day and there’s been little to no change in the landscape. Over the weekend, the President offered a proposal that was rejected by Democrats, leaving us about where we were last...more

Health Care Weekly Preview from ML Strategies – December 2018 #2

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 12/19/2018

This week, Congress is in session for what should be the last week of the 115th Congress. That said, best not to count your chickens before they hatch. The spending fight that has been raging since the last continuing...more

Voters nationwide sent a powerful health care message. Will partisans heed it?

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 11/12/2018

Last week’s election leaves two questions lingering about health care: Will politicians really hear what voters said? And, what help might beleaguered patients now expect from their elected officials?...more

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