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 [...]
ASH Asks E&C Leadership to Protect Medicaid in Reconciliation Talks
As the House Energy and Commerce Committee works to craft Medicaid legislation for the upcoming budget reconciliation bill, the Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals has asked its leaders to protect three tools critical to the ability of community safety-net hospitals to [...]
Federal Health Policy Update for April 17
The following is the latest health policy news from the federal government for April 11-17. Some of the language used below is taken directly from government documents. The White House President Trump signed an executive order titled “Lowering Drug Prices [...]
States Scramble to Fill Potential Health Insurance Gap
With the clock ticking on the deadline for Congress to renew enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace health insurance, a number of states are looking for ways to compensate for the loss of that subsidy money and help some [...]
Federal Health Policy Update for April 10
The following is the latest health policy news from the federal government for April 4-10. Some of the language used below is taken directly from government documents. Congress The House today passed the budget resolution passed by the Senate last [...]
Filling an $880 Billion Medicaid Hole
With the House of Representatives proposing to set a target of reducing Medicaid spending by $880 billion over the next ten years, a reasonable question is “How would states do that?” In a new report, KFF, a non-profit health policy [...]
