HHS Releases Proposed Budget
The Department of Health and Human Services has released a new, expanded version of its proposed FY 2026 budget. In some areas this version provides more detail than the administration shared in early May when it released a so-called “skinny [...]
Administration Targets State Directed Medicaid Payments
The White House has issued a presidential memorandum on “Eliminating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Medicaid” that cites Medicaid “state-directed payments” as a form of waste, fraud, and abuse. According to the memorandum, states use state directed payments to pay [...]
ASH Comments on Proposed FY 2026 Medicare Payments
The Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals has submitted formal comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in response to that agency’s proposed FY 2026 Medicare inpatient prospective payment system regulation, which calls for changes in how Medicare will pay [...]
Federal Health Policy Update for June 5
The following is the latest health policy news from the federal government for May 30 to June 5. Some of the language used below is taken directly from government documents. Congress Congress returned to Washington D.C., where Republican senators continue [...]
Federal Health Policy Update for May 29
The following is the latest health policy news from the federal government for May 23-29. Some of the language used below is taken directly from government documents. Congress The House and Senate are out of Washington, D.C. this week for [...]
Federal Health Policy Update for May 22
The following is the latest health policy news from the federal government for May 16-22. Some of the language used below is taken directly from government documents. Congress: Reconciliation Early Thursday morning the House of Representatives passed its version of [...]
Innovation Center to Steer New Course
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation has announced that it will take a new approach to developing and testing new models of health care delivery – an approach designed to be more MAHA-oriented. [...]
Federal Health Policy Update for May 15
The following is the latest health policy news from the federal government for May 9-15. Some of the language used below is taken directly from government documents. Congress: Reconciliation House Energy and Commerce Committee Charged with finding $880 billion in [...]
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 [...]
