Tag: Congress

Healthcare Preview for the Week of: June 26, 2023

Calendar Crunch The House and the Senate just began a two-week recess for the July 4 holiday. Looking into the future, there are very few working days left on the calendar leading up to the end of the fiscal year. The House is onl...

Healthcare Preview for the Week of: June 20, 2023

Work Before July 4 Recess   This is the last week before Congress heads out for a two-week July 4 recess, and appropriations work in Congress is ramping up. The Senate Appropriations Committee will hold its first full committ...

Healthcare Preview for the Week of: May 8, 2023

Debt-Limit Discussions and Ending the PHE On Tuesday, President Biden will meet with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConn...

Healthcare Preview for the Week of: March 20, 2023

Becerra Budget Hearings  This week US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Becerra will begin testifying in front of various congressional committees on the HHS budget. HHS proposes $1.7 trillion in mandatory f...

M+ Healthcare Preview: March 02, 2020

CORONAVIRUS SPREADS TO POLITICS.

• The Coronavirus is Taking Over Washington. Last week, the coronavirus became the focal point for Congress, the Administration and the general public. The growing attent...

  M+ Healthcare Preview: January 21, 2020

  Health Care Priorities in Congress are on Pause.  

  • Impeachment and the Senate. Last week the House sent two articles of impeachment to the Senate. Following that, the Senate began its procedu...

    M+ Health Care Preview: September 17, 2019

    The Government Funding Deadline is Quickly Approaching… Congress Has Two Weeks to Address Government Funding. Last week, we expected that the Senate Appropriations Committee would mark up of four fiscal year ...

    M+ Health Care Preview: September 9, 2019

    They’re Back….  Congress Is Back in Session. The first thing on Congress’ to-do list is to address government funding. With only three weeks to fund the government before a potential shutdown, Congress n...

    M+ Check-Up: May 24, 2019

    This Week’s Dose: We saw a flurry of activity this week related to drug pricing, surprise billing, cost containment and tobacco as lawmakers worked through their to-do list ahead of the Memor...

    M+ Check-Up: May 10, 2019

    This Week’s Dose: Another busy week for prescription drug pricing. Two more hearings took place on the subject, and a handful of bills passed out of the House. Now we watch the Senate to see ...

    M+ Check-Up: May 3, 2019

    This Week’s Dose: Lots of activity surrounding single-payer this week with a hearing, the introduction of two Medicare expansion bills and a report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)....

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    They’re back… Congress is back from recess and now heads into a four week work stretch. The next four weeks will be important to watch for progress on legislation. A numbe...

    M+ Check-Up: April 26, 2019

    This Week’s Dose: When Congress is away, the agencies will play. The Administration made some major announcements and dropped several new important rules this week, giving stakeholders plenty...

    M+ Check-Up: April 12, 2019

    This Week’s Dose: Drug pricing continues to be the focus in Congress with multiple hearings and markups on the subject. So far, lowering drug prices remains a rare area of consensus among law...

    M+ Check-Up: April 5, 2019

    This Week’s Dose: Health care continues to dominate much of the attention on Capitol Hill. Lots of hearings. New coverage expansion legislation. And more state action on Medicaid.

    M+ Check-Up: March 29, 2019

    This Week’s Dose: Congress is back and busy. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) dominates the headlines. Congress Democrats Release H...

    M+ Check-Up: March 22, 2019

    This Week’s Diagnosis: Recess usually means a light week. This one is no different. Congress PBMs Will Get Their Day…Just a We...

    M+ Check-Up: March 8, 2019

    This Week’s Diagnosis: Hearings, hearings and more hearings. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb is stepping down. Budget talks heat up. Congress

    M+ Check-Up: March 1, 2019

    This Week’s Diagnosis: Congress gets busy. Pharmaceutical CEOs testify and emerge unscathed. The Administration is quiet. Congress

    M+ Check-Up: February 15, 2019

    This Week’s Diagnosis: Congress passed a $328 billion spending package to avert another government shutdown.  President Trump is expected to sign it.  Congressional hearings continue to foc...

    M+ Check-Up: February 8, 2019

    This Week’s Dose: The State of the Union briefly highlighted a few Administration health initiatives. The House continues its focus on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Senate is pressuring ...

    M+ Check-Up: February 1, 2019

    This Week’s Diagnosis: Government reopens…for at least three weeks. Congress is full steam ahead, kicking off the 116^th with health care hearings on drug pricing and pre-existing...

    M+ Check-Up: January 18, 2019

    Congress Shutdown Stalemate. Over the past two weeks, the Democratic-controlled House has voted to fund the federal agencies affected by the shutdown. There have been short- a...

    M+ Check-Up: January 11, 2019

    This Week’s Diagnosis: Welcome back – sort of. The partial federal government shutdown drags on. We are on day 21 with no end in sight, ...

    M+ Check-Up: December 14, 2018

    This Week’s Diagnosis: President Trump clashed with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in a meeting this week about how to keep the go...

    M+ Check-Up: December 7, 2018

    This Week’s Diagnosis: Memorial services for President George H.W. Bush were held this week in Washington, DC and Texas. No agreement has been reached on border wall funding, which means Memb...

    M+ Check-Up: November 30, 2018

    This Week’s Diagnoses: Welcome back! Members are back in town for a sprint to the finish. Controversy over the House Democratic leadership elections fizzled, with the same faces in the top th...

    M+ Check-Up: November 16, 2018

    This Week’s Diagnosis: Newly elected congressional members were welcomed to Washington this week, while currently serving members returned for a brief, but important post-election lame duck s...

    M+ Check-Up: November 2, 2018

    This Week’s Diagnosis: While members of Congress are touting the passage of the opioid package on the campaign trail, the Administration continued releasing a series of significant health pol...

    M+ Check-Up: October 26, 2018

    This Week’s Diagnosis: The Administration remains active with the issuance of several new guidance documents, the drug pricing announcement and the President (finally) signing the bipartisan ...

    M+ Check-Up: October 19, 2018

    This Week’s Diagnoses: All eyes are on the midterm election, now less than three weeks away.  The House and Senate are out; the Administration continues to release health-related regulations...

    M+ Check-Up: September 28, 2018

    This Week’s Diagnosis: Consideration of the Kavanaugh nomination dominated airtime in the Senate this week, but the House stayed on-task, pushing through a number of health-related bills.

    M+ Check-up: September 14, 2018

    This Week’s Diagnosis: The House and Senate cancelled scheduled votes this week in anticipation of Hurricane Florence making landfall on the East Coast. The cancellations included a bipartisa...