Affordable Care Act, Trump Administration, Prescription Drugs

Healthcare Preview for the Week of: March 31, 2025

McDermott+ on 4/1/2025

Reconciliation Watch - Reports indicate that the Senate will move as soon as Wednesday to begin advancing a unified budget plan. The Senate hopes to be able to advance the budget resolution by having the two chambers...more

Health Care Executive Orders And Legal Actions: Part Five

McGuireWoods Consulting on 3/26/2025

This is part five in a series of executive orders related to health care. Trump Recission of Biden Administration Executive Orders - Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...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

Rescission of a Biden Executive Order on Healthcare

McGuireWoods Consulting on 1/24/2025

Among the many rescissions of Biden administration Executive Orders, signed by President Trump on his administration’s first day, was a rescission of an Executive Order that encouraged Medicare to lower drug costs and makes...more

The Fate of the Trump Administration’s Controversial Most Favored Nation Drug Pricing Model Is Unclear Given Mounting Legal...

Polsinelli on 12/10/2020

On November 27, 2020, CMS published its Most Favored Nation (MFN) Model Interim Final Rule (IFR) that seeks to lower the amount paid for 50 high-cost Medicare Part B drugs to the lowest price that drug manufacturers receive...more

Post-Election 2020 - Health Care Preview

Mintz - ML Strategies on 11/24/2020

With the presidential transition underway, we now look forward to what the Biden administration will seek to accomplish, particularly in the realm of health care policy. President-elect Biden has been clear that he wants to...more

Post-Election Health Policy Outlook & Analysis

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 11/16/2020

The following provides a high-level overview of how the November 3, 2020 election results will impact certain health care issues and policies. This analysis assumes that the Biden-Harris Electoral College win will be...more

Trump administration reversal would take away FDA’s authority to approve biosimilars

Hogan Lovells on 7/15/2020

On June 25, 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a brief in the United States Supreme Court that reverses the government’s prior position by arguing that none of the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable...more

Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines – COVID-19 D.C. Update – June 2020 #20

Hogan Lovells on 6/30/2020

In Washington: The House is set to vote on the two high-profile policy issues before leaving town for the two-week July 4 recess, however, neither of the measures is likely to be taken up in the GOP-controlled Senate,...more

Washington Healthcare Update - March 2020 #4

McGuireWoods Consulting on 3/24/2020

This week in Washington: Congress debates additional legislation to address the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. ...more

Sad Day for Coupon-Clippers

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 2/12/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: Recently, the Trump Administration issued its proposed Notice of Benefit & Payment Parameter for 2021 regulations....more

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

BakerHostetler on 10/28/2019

DEMOCRATS PRESS FOR PRE-THANKSGIVING VOTE ON DRUG PRICING BILL - The House Ways and Means Committee last week approved an amended version of legislation that would overhaul how Medicare and private insurers reimburse for...more

Health insurance? It’s now about the price of a new car each year.

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 10/4/2019

Millions of Americans may sigh at Bertha, Barney, or Betty, or whatever they’ve nicknamed the beat-up family vehicle parked out front: “Wouldn’t it be great, if only we could afford a nicer, newer model?”...more

Washington Healthcare Update - September 2019 #4

McGuireWoods Consulting on 10/1/2019

This week in Washington: The House and Senate are in recess. Congress - Hearings/Markups - Senate Special Committee on Aging: “Promoting Healthy Aging – Living Your Best Life Long into Your Golden Years”...more

Tennessee Announces First-in-Nation Block Grant Proposal

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law on 9/23/2019

On September 17, 2019, Tennessee released its proposal to block grant most of the funding the state’s Medicaid program (TennCare) receives from the Federal government. If approved by CMS, the amendment to the state’s...more

Drug Pricing and Surprise Billing: Recent Actions and Outlook

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 8/8/2019

Recent months have seen a flurry of activity in Congress on prescription drug pricing and surprise medical bills as lawmakers seek to address rising consumer health care costs. Several House and Senate committees have...more

$14k to treat iron-poor blood? That’s rich. As is politicians’ health care frenzy.

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 8/6/2019

Iron poor blood? For many of a certain age, mere mention of that phrase conjures the major advertising campaigns of yore for a popular, over-the-counter nostrum called Geritol. The tonic is still around and sells for less...more

Washington Healthcare Update May 2019 #2

McGuireWoods Consulting on 5/14/2019

This week in Washington: House to hold hearings on PFAS contamination and exposure, the maternal mortality crisis and single-payer issues....more

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

BakerHostetler on 5/6/2019

Below is this week’s “Capitol Hill Healthcare Update,” which is posted on Mondays when Congress is in session. TRUMP, DEMOCRATIC LEADERS TO MEET ON DRUG PRICES - During a White House meeting last week on infrastructure...more

Cost of medical billing soars to half a trillion dollars—and half may be wasted

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 4/17/2019

When patients battle with the desperate extremes of a disease like a fast-spreading cancer, it isn’t just the radiation and chemo therapies that sap their spirits, there’s a demoralizing runner-up concern: The constant...more

Washington Healthcare Update March 2019 #3

McGuireWoods Consulting on 3/19/2019

Upcoming Hearings - Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP): “Implementing the 21st Century Cures Act: Making Electronic Health Information Available to Patients and...more

President Trump's Budget: Key Takeaways for Health Care

Baker Donelson on 3/18/2019

President Trump's fiscal year 2020 (FY20) budget proposal for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reflects the Trump Administration's priorities to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), implement...more

2019: What to Expect in Health Care Policy

Baker Donelson on 2/12/2019

Health care issues will remain a central focus in Washington throughout 2019. Having gained control of the House following the 2018 mid-term elections, Democrats now have the ability to block President Trump's legislative...more

Washington Healthcare Update February 2019 #2

McGuireWoods Consulting on 2/12/2019

Coming Week’s Highlights: This week’s focus by many will be whether the government shuts down once more. Legislation must be passed and signed by the President by February 15, in order to keep the departments not yet funded...more

Capitol Hill Healthcare Update

BakerHostetler on 2/5/2019

Below is this week’s “Capitol Hill Healthcare Update,” which is posted on Mondays when Congress is in session. Highlights this week: Trump will discuss healthcare and drug costs in this week’s State of the Union address;...more

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