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The House version of President Biden's $1.7 trillion social spending package includes DSH cuts for hospitals in states that haven't expanded Medicaid.

Providers speak out against 340B drug pricing cuts of nearly 30%.

Providers and others applaud Brooks-LaSure’s work on the ACA and her advocacy on health equity issues and for the underserved.

Chiquita Brooks LaSure The U.S. Senate confirmed President Joe Bidens nominee to lead CMS Tuesday, giving the agency a permanent leader at a key moment for the administration. Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, who worked for the Obama administration and helped implement the Affordable Care Act, will oversee the agencys efforts to expand the healthcare law, set the overall policy agenda for Medicare, Medicaid and the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The nomination was approved 55-44 with four R...

“Senator Cornyn placed the hold after the Biden Administration decided to play political chicken with uninsured Texans’ healthcare,” a Cornyn spokesperson said at the time.  Biden’s CMS argued that the Trump administration did not give the required time for public comment on the waiver. Texas responded to the decision by filing a lawsuit against the Biden administration.  ADVERTISEMENT Brooks-LaSure had not been confirmed when the Medicaid waiver was rescinded, so she had not particip...

U.S. senators on Tuesday confirmed a veteran Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP adviser to a top post at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, bringing President Joe Biden one step closer to rounding out his health policy leadership.

(Photo by Alex Wong\Getty Images) The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has updated the Medicare fee-for-service payment rates and policies for inpatient hospitals and long-term care hospitals for 2022.  Before taking into account Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments and Medicare uncompensated care payments, the proposed increase in operating payment rates, increases in capital payments, increases in payments for new medical technologies, increases in payments due to impl...

(Photo courtesy joe daniel price/Getty Images) In a vote of 384-38, the House on Tuesday passed a bill that eliminates the 2% cut to Medicare payments until the end of 2021. However, the bill proposes to offset the change by increasing the sequester cuts in 2030. WHY THIS MATTERS The cuts were triggered by a federal budget sequestration. Hospitals, physicians and other providers protested the 2% cuts as coming at a time when they were struggling financially and clinically to handle the COVID-1...

Apr 14, 2021 11:37am The House passed legislation on Tuesday to extend a moratorium for the rest of the year to ensure that a 2% cut to Medicare payments doesnt go back into effect. (Stephen Emlund/Getty Images)(Stephen Emlund / GettyImages) The House overwhelmingly passed legislation to pause cuts to Medicare payments to help providers still facing financial challenges due to COVID-19. The House passed the legislation 384-38 on Tuesday that pauses a 2% cut on Medicare payments through the rest...

Photo by Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images Hospital groups are applauding President Joe Bidens executive order that directs federal agencies to review Trump-era immigration policies that affect immigrants access to healthcare.  The order, signed on Tuesday, requires a "top-to-bottom review" of the public charge rule that allows the federal government to deny entry into the country or citizenship based on the receipt of public benefits such as Medicaid. It also rescinds a memorandum requiring f...