Federal Health Policy Update for September 26
The following is the latest health policy news from the federal government for September 20-26. Some of the language used below is taken directly from government documents. Congress Yesterday, Congress passed a continuing resolution to fund the federal government when [...]
Medicaid Enrollment Exceeds Pre-Pandemic Levels
While 25 million Americans have lost their Medicaid eligibility as a result of the post-pandemic “Medicaid unwinding” process, enrollment in the program today exceeds its pre-COVID level. Currently, Medicaid enrollment nationwide is 10 million more than it was in February [...]
Feds Set End Date for “Medicaid Unwinding”
States need to complete their “Medicaid unwinding” activities by the end of 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services informed state Medicaid programs in a recent memo. According to the agency, … all states are required to complete a [...]
Federal Health Policy Update for September 19
The following is the latest health policy news from the federal government for September 13-29. Some of the language used below is taken directly from government documents. Congress Energy and Commerce Committee Markup Yesterday the House Energy and Commerce Committee [...]
CMS Responds to 340B Threat
Last month, Johnson & Johnson announced that it would stop providing discounts for two of its drugs for disproportionate share hospitals (DSH hospitals) participating in the federal 340B prescription drug discount program. Instead, the company would require the hospitals to [...]
ASH Seeks Support for Opposition to 340B Challenge
In the wake of a pharmaceutical company seeking to circumvent the established manner in which the federal section 340B prescription drug discount program works, the Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals has asked members of the House of Representatives to sign onto [...]
End Medicaid DSH Cuts, ASH Asks Congress
The next continuing resolution to fund the federal government should extend the delay on long-scheduled, always-delayed cuts in Medicaid disproportionate share (Medicaid DSH) allotments to the states, the Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals has written in a letter to congressional leaders. [...]
Federal Health Policy Update for September 12
The following is the latest health policy news from the federal government for September 6-12. Some of the language used below is taken directly from government documents. ASH Advocacy ASH has written to congressional leaders urging them to eliminate scheduled [...]
Clock Ticking on Some Telehealth Prescribing?
The COVID-inspired flexibility to prescribe some medicines via telehealth will soon expire – and it is not clear whether the practice will be extended. While there is general support for telehealth prescribing, policymakers appear to be divided over whether to [...]
ASH Comments on Proposed 2025 Medicare Physician Payments
Medicare should increase payments to physicians for caring for Medicare patients and not decrease them as it has proposed, the Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals wrote in a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in response to CMS’s [...]
