ASH Issues Statement in Opposition to Proposed Medicaid Cuts
The Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals has sent to members of Congress the following statement about the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s proposed changes in federal Medicaid policy for inclusion in upcoming budget reconciliation legislation. The Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals strongly [...]
Federal Health Policy Update for May 8
The following is the latest health policy news from the federal government for May 2-8. Some of the language used below is taken directly from government documents. Congress Reconciliation Over the past several days the political gravity surrounding Medicaid cuts [...]
Supreme Court Rejects Medicare DSH Challenge
The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a lower court ruling that found that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services did not undercalculate hospitals’ Medicare disproportionate share payments between 2006 and 2009. In the suit, more than 200 [...]
Federal Health Policy Update for May 1
The following is the latest health policy news from the federal government for April 25 – May 1. Some of the language used below is taken directly from government documents. Congress Reconciliation The House and Senate returned to Washington D.C. [...]
Medicaid Financing 101
The National Association of Medicaid Directors has published a primer on how Medicaid is financed at the state and federal levels. The background paper describes the federal Medical Assistance percentage – FMAP, the rate at which the federal government provides [...]
Key Committee Chair Calls for 340B Changes
In a newly released report, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee chair Bill Cassidy (R-LA) has pointed to problems with the 340B Drug Pricing Program and suggested ways of dealing with those problems. The report, from the committee’s [...]
ASH Asks Congress to Protect Medicaid in Reconciliation
As Congress seeks to develop budget reconciliation legislation, the Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals has written to its members asking them to protect Medicaid during that challenging process. As ASH notes in its message to members of Congress, Across the country, [...]
Are Medicaid Provider Taxes, State-Directed Payments in Play?
Even as the House Energy and Commerce Committee contemplates how it will reach its assigned target of $880 billion in spending cuts mostly through Medicaid cuts, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may be following a similar course by [...]
Federal Health Policy Update for April 24
The following is the latest health policy news from the federal government for April 18-24. Some of the language used below is taken directly from government documents. Congress The House and Senate are in recess until April 28. Upon their [...]
Sneak Peek at HHS Budget Reveals Reorganization, Cuts
A big-picture document summarizing the Trump administration’s intentions for the Department of Health and Human Services suggests the agency is in for a major round of cuts and reorganization, some of which is already underway. Among the cuts noted in [...]
