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CMS rules hindered the access of rural patients with cancer to medically integrated pharmacies in 2023. The authors discuss the impact on equity in health care, emphasizing the need for regulatory change.

The Biden administration has introduced new regulations intended to increase staffing levels and improve patient care in nursing homes.

The Biden administration has introduced a controversial set of new regulations intended to increase staffing levels and improve patient care in nursing homes. The new staffing rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has faced fierce opposition from the industry and Republicans in Congress. It establishes for the first time national minimum […] The post Biden administration unveils new rule on nursing home staffing levels appeared first on Indiana Capital Chronicle.

This Week in Washington: Congress passes six appropriations bills including skinny health package; House Ways and Means Committee reports bill to block CMS nursing home minimum staffing...

Appropriations Update. On March 3, Congress released bill text for the CAA, 2024, which includes funding for six of the 12 appropriations bills: Agriculture-FDA, Military...

Congress should reverse cuts to Medicare payments or risk driving away doctors who treat seniors with complex needs

Congress should reverse cuts to Medicare payments or risk driving away doctors who treat seniors with complex needs

New interpretation of Stark law excludes distribution of oral oncology drugs by mail

"Fee cuts and already woefully inadequate payments have physicians contemplating leaving Medicare or quitting medicine altogether," writes Donaldo Hernandez in a Guest Commentary. "As a physician, it can sometimes feel like there is an ever-growing list of challenges that make it harder for doctors to care for patients in need. Congress’ recent failure to prevent a 3.37% cut to the Medicare physician fee schedule – the second cut in as many years – is the latest such example...

Declarations of economic recovery don’t seem right I fully support the Bloomberg editorial critical of so-called “U.S. economic recovery” recently published in the IJ (“Voters are right to complain about inflation,” Dec. 15). Just this month, I wrote a letter to President Joe Biden, copying Gov. Gavin Newsom, with essentially the same message as the […]