Tag: Medicaid

IS THIS MEDICAID WEEK?

• It Has Been 73 Days Since the CARES Act Passed. The bill created the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) and allocated $100 billion to reimburse providers for lost revenues resulting from COVID-19....

  M+ Check-Up: June 05, 2020

  This Week’s Dose: House Republicans released proposals to support coronavirus (COVID-19) testing, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) released new flexibil...

  M+ Check-Up: May 29, 2020

  This Week’s Dose: Negotiations over the coronavirus (COVID-19) response continued in the Senate with Democrats releasing a new proposal on health coverage expansion. The Trump Ad...

  M+ Check-Up: May 22, 2020

  This Week’s Dose: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) distributed funding to increase coronavirus (COVID-19) testing capacity and announced a targeted Provider Rel...

  M+ Healthcare Preview: May 18, 2020

  ALL EYES ON THE SENATE.

  • Last Week Was a Busy One for the House. On Friday, the House of Representatives passed the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act (R. 680...

    M+ Check-Up: May 15, 2020

    This Week’s Dose:  House Democrats introduced a $3 trillion coronavirus (COVID-19) relief bill, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released annual upda...

    M+ Check-Up: May 1, 2020

    This Week’s Dose: The Senate announced it will reconvene next week, and the Administration issued new coronavirus (COVID-19) testing guidelines. The Centers for Medicare and ...

    Healthcare Preview: Week of April 27

    On this episode of the Healthcare Preview podcast, McDermottPlus VP Rodney Whitlock and Policy Consultant Emma Zimmerman discuss the next distribution of funding from the provider relief fund created by the CARES Act, and what’s next for health...

    M+ Check-Up: April 24, 2020

    This Week’s Dose: Congress approved additional emergency relief for healthcare providers and small businesses, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced...

    M+ Check-Up: April 17, 2020

    This Week’s Dose: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) opened the online portal for providers to attest to the terms and conditions for the first $30 billion dis...

    M+ Check-Up: April 10, 2020

    This Week’s Dose: The Administration distributed the first wave of funding from the $100 billion Public Health and Social Services emergency fund, provided through the Corona...

    M+ Check-Up: April 3, 2020

    This Week’s Dose: Implementation of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act continues as lawmakers consider a fourth relief bill in response to COVID-1...

    M+ Healthcare Preview: March 23, 2020

    ALL EYES ON SUPPLEMENTAL SPENDING BILL NUMBER THREE.

    • Congress Expects to Reach a Deal This Week. Over a whirlwind of a weekend, Senate Republicans unveiled a $1.6 trillion stimulus and suppor...

      M+ Check-Up: March 20, 2020

      This Week’s Dose: The response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) continued to dominate lawmakers’ attention. The Senate passed the second emergency funding bill and began work on a third. The A...

      M+ Check-Up: March 13, 2020

      This Week’s Dose: Lawmakers are considering additional emergency funding to address the growing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as US cases top 1,000. The Administration released long-awaited...

      M+ Healthcare Preview: March 09, 2020

      ADDRESSING CORONAVIRUS.

      • Coronavirus Consequences. Last week, Congress passed, and the President signed an $8.3 billion coronavirus supplemental funding package. The package includes $3 billio...

        M+ Check-Up: February 28, 2020

        This Week’s Dose: The Administration requested emergency funding to fight the coronavirus epidemic, and US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar defended the Presi...

        M+ Check-Up: February 07, 2020

        This Week’s Dose: The House Ways and Means and Education and Labor committees released information on their surprise billing proposals, and President Trump delivered the State of the Union on...

        M+ Check-Up: January 31, 2020

        This Week’s Dose: The House of Representatives returned from recess to continue work on legislation to address surprise medical bills and high drug costs, while the Administration unveiled a ...

        M+ Healthcare Preview: January 27, 2020

        The House is Back, but the Senate Remains Focused on Impeachment.   

        • Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Proposed Rule and Medicaid Block Grants. This week, comments are due for the Medicaid Fisc...

          M+ Check-Up: January 17, 2020

          This Week’s Dose: The House of Representatives voted to formally present the articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate, kicking off the trial phase of the impeachment pro...

          M+ Check-Up: December 06, 2019

          This Week’s Dose: Congress is back in town with just two weeks to address government funding and many healthcare issues. More proposals are emerging on drug pricing and surprise billing, and ...

          M+ Check-Up: November 22, 2019

          This Week’s Dose: Impeachment continued to dominate the news, Congress averted a government shutdown, and federal vaping regulation stalled. Congress

          M+ Healthcare Preview: November 18, 2019

          Last Week to Address Government Funding and the Extenders.  

          • November 21^st is Here. This week, Congress has to fund the government to prevent a shutdown and address the healthcare ...

            M+ Check-Up: November 15, 2019

            This Week’s Dose: Government funding negotiations continued against the backdrop of impeachment, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued new rules on provider price tr...

            M+ Check-Up: November 8, 2019

            This Week’s Dose: There was little activity in Congress with the House in recess, but we saw several developments in the Medicaid space including new guidance from the Centers for Medicare an...

            M+ Check-Up: October 25, 2019

            This Week’s Dose: The House Ways and Means Committee completed its markup of H.R. 3, but floor consideration was pushed until mid-November. Seema Verma appeared before the House Energy and C...

            M+ Check-Up: October 18, 2019

            The Healthcare Preview podcast, now available on SoundCloud (link to profile here) This Week’s Dose: The House is moving ahead on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s drug pricing proposal.

            M+ Check-Up: October 4, 2019

            This Week’s Dose: The impeachment inquiry proceedings are still moving forward, despite the Congressional recess. Surprise billing activity continued, and the Trump Administration issued an E...

            M+ Check-Up: September 27, 2019

            This Week’s Dose: Speaker Pelosi’s announcement of an impeachment inquiry dominated the news this week, but what does that mean for health care policy?

            M+ Check-Up: September 20, 2019

            This Week’s Dose: Speaker Pelosi released her long-awaited drug pricing bill, and the House Energy and Commerce Committee questioned drug companies’ financial motivations during a hearing t...

            M+ Check-Up: September 13, 2019

            This Week’s Dose: The House and Senate are back in session with two weeks to go until the government funding deadline and lots to do. Congress

            M+ Check-Up: August 2, 2019

            This Week’s Dose: Things have quieted down in Congress with the House out of session and the Senate wrapping up its last week before the August recess. But the agencies are still at work, so ...

            M+ Check-Up: July 26, 2019

            This Week’s Dose: The Senate Finance Committee finally released its drug pricing package and moved quickly to a markup. The bill passed out of committee, but work will continue before the ful...

            M+ Check-Up: July 12, 2019

            This Week’s Dose: Congress is back for the final legislative session before the August recess, and it’s all about what can get done ahead of the break. House and Senate committees have alre...

            M+ Check-Up: June 28, 2019

            This Week’s Dose: Lots of movement in Congress ahead of the Fourth of July recess with the House and Senate both advancing a number of health care bills. President Trump also signed an execut...

            M+ Check-Up: June 21, 2019

            This Week’s Dose: Three weeks down, one week to go in this work period. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee is moving forward with its cost containment legislati...

            M+ Check-Up: June 14, 2019

            This Week’s Dose: The focus was back on surprise billing this week with the third hearing of the year. We also saw hearings on Medicare for All and vertical consolidation in the health care i...

            M+ Check-Up: June 7, 2019

            This Week’s Dose: Congress is back, and this week marked the start of another busy legislative session. Work continues on drug pricing, surprise billing and cost containment, and negotiations...

            M+ Health Care Preview: June 3, 2019

            And they’re back. Today, Congress starts a four-week legislative session, and it’s going to be a busy one. In fact, the next four weeks are key for the opportunity for Congress to produce. The Senate Finance...

            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 17, 2019

            This Week’s Dose: Drug pricing remains in the spotlight, but lawmakers also introduced legislation focused on surprise billing and coinsurance. Congress<...

            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)....

            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 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 15, 2019

            This Week’s Diagnosis: All about the budget. Medicaid work requirements back in the spotlight. Recess awaits. Congress Azar Make...

            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 22, 2019

            This Week’s Diagnosis: It’s all quiet on the Hill. Members return Monday after the first full week of district work time in the 116^th 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 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: 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 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: 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...