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GAO reviewed the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) new rule entitled "Medicare Program; End...

Congress - House - House Passes Reconciliation Package - On Nov. 19, the House passed the $1.7 trillion reconciliation package with a vote of...

Private equtiy stealing from babies...um, oldsters....um, Medicare. Who'd have thunk it?

Rick Thornton, a Fort Worth health insurance agent, says a new bill backed by the current administration would, change the scope of healthcare forever.. FORT WORTH, TEXAS, UNITED STATES, October 27, 2021/ EINPresswire.com/-- Fort Worth health insurance and the millions of Americans who have it are paying close attention nowadays as the current administration’ s...

Intersect Healthcare Inc., Towson, Maryland, has issued a public comment on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed rule entitled "Medicare Program: Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology and Definition of Reasonable and Necessary". The comment was co-signed by Brian McGraw, president; Raymond Kendall Smith Jr., chief physician advisor;...

Over the past year, the federal government has taken concrete steps to fulfill its promise of a heightened commitment to investigating and enforcing health care fraud within the...

Thursday, July 22, 2021 On 19 July 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2022 Outpatient Prospective Payment System/Ambulatory Surgery Center Payment System proposed rule (OPPS Proposed Rule), 1 which includes a proposal to significantly increase penalties on hospitals for noncompliance with CMS’s price transparency rules (collectively, the Hospital Price Transparency Rule or the Rule). Citing President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competit...

HHS Reinstates the Unapproved Drugs Initiative FDA Releases Draft Guidances on Medical Devices FDA Issues Updated COVID-19 Vaccine EUA Guidance FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization to GlaxoSmithKline’s Monoclonal Antibody FDA Finalizes Guidance on Pediatric Cancer Drugs CMS Joins Online Platforms to Encourage Gig Workers to Enroll in ACA Plans CMS Proposes Delay of Medicaid Multiple Best Price Policy Proposed Rules CMS Issues Proposed Rule on Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Bill...

My Turn: Biden’s long step towards long-term care AL NORMAN Published: 5/11/2021 6:25:06 PM Back in the early 1980s, I recall meeting U.S. Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida, the elderly rights champion, at a rally of advocates in Cambridge. Pepper told the crowd: “I hope to live long enough to see long-term care become part of the Medicare Program.” Pepper died in 1989 — and his dream has still not come true 32 years later. Federally sponsored health care has been a long time coming. Fra...

An Update from Federal Officials on Efforts to Combat COVID-19” 10:00 a.m. May 12 COVID-19 Variants and Evolving Research Needs” 10:00 a.m. House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Health: “Hearing on the Fiscal Year 2022 HHS Budget” 10:30 a.m. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Hearing: “ Supporting Disabled Veterans: The State of Claims Processing During and After COVID-19” 3:00 p.m. May 13 House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Hea...