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It’s the Final Countdown: Comparing the Last Regulatory Actions of the Biden and Trump Administrations

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The election is approaching fast, and no matter who wins, there will be a change in administration come January 20, 2025. Thus, the Biden Administration is in the midst of making its final mark on priority healthcare...more

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Election 2024: Healthcare Innovation in the US

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How would a Harris-Walz administration affect clients in your practice? Bottom line: It would likely put to rest or delay debates about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), allowing health policy and legislation to focus on other...more

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Election 2024: Gender-Affirming Care in the US

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On the issue of gender-affirming care, how would a Harris-Walz administration affect clients in your practice? Bottom line: A Harris-Walz administration would likely provide health plans and health plan sponsors with...more

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Trending in Telehealth: September 17 – 30, 2024

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Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists, and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more

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2025 Deadline for Health Insurance Subsidies Looms Over Elections

As part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), signed into law in August 2022, Congress passed a three-year extension of enhanced subsidies for individuals purchasing their own health coverage on the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...more

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Trending in Telehealth: July 2 – 8, 2024

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Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more

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Florida Legislative Session 2024: Health Care Highlights

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The Florida Regular Legislative Session began on January 9, 2024, and ended on March 8, 2024. Below is a summary of relevant health care laws that will be effective July 1, 2024, if they are approved by Governor DeSantis....more

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Biden Reveals Health Care Priorities in FY 2025 Budget

On Monday, March 11, President Joe Biden unveiled his fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget request, the fourth of his presidency. The $7.3 trillion proposal calls for approximately $1.9 trillion in discretionary spending, $4.4...more

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Health Care Stakeholders Support Passage of The Value in Health Care Act

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Seventeen healthcare stakeholder groups have come together to support The Value in Health Care Act, a bill that a bipartisan coalition reintroduced in Congress this summer. The bill supports a shift in the medical care...more

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Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 - December 2023

S. 3430: Better Mental Health Care, Lower-Cost Drugs, and Extenders Act of 2023 Introduced December 7, 202- This bill would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: Establish requirements for a code or...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: December 1, 2023

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CONGRESS - House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee Examines AI. The hearing explored the transformative potential of AI in healthcare, acknowledging its promise in enhancing efficiency, improving patient care and...more

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Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 - October 2023

S. 2880: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand the scope of practitioners eligible for payment for telehealth services under the Medicare program, and for other purposes....more

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California Assembly Acts to Streamline Physician Credentialing Process

The California Legislature is considering a bill to simplify the process by which health insurers and plans credential providers. Currently, providers must satisfy the proprietary “credentialing” requirements of individual...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: May 19, 2023

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The House and Senate were both in session this week, with significant healthcare activity at the committee level. The House Ways & Means Committee met to discuss healthcare price transparency, and the Ways & Means Health...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: April 28, 2023

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Congress was in session, and it was a busy healthcare week at the committee level, with six hearings focused specifically on health issues. On the House floor, Republicans passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act—a bill that raises...more

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Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 - May 2022

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more

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Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 - March 2022 #2

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth servic es. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more

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Top Issues in Behavioral Health for 2022

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Behavioral Health M&A Will Remain Hot in 2022 - Behavioral health had its most active year in 2021, which came on the heels of very active years that preceded it. There are many factors that contributed to this and that...more

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Positive Momentum Behind Congressional Efforts to Avert Medicare Cuts

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Health Care providers have been advocating for Congress to avert a series of impending Medicare reimbursement cuts slated to take effect in January of 2022 – an issue that has garnered bipartisan support. Congressional...more

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The Dome Report - 2020 West Virginia Legislature Commences, Issue 2

As you know, the 2020 Regular Session of the West Virginia Legislature commenced on January 8. As of this writing, the House has introduced 903 bills, while the Senate has introduced 467. We will be reporting on and tracking...more

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Legislation Re-Introduced to Expand Access to Telehealth Under Medicare

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation on October 30th designed to expand Medicare beneficiaries’ access to telehealth services. The bill is called the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective...more

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Vermont Legislative Update 03-22-2019 - An analysis from DRM's Government & Public Affairs Team

A workgroup report reviewed in the House Human Services Committee this week recommended that Vermont consider implementing an unused drug repository program....more

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Vermont Legislative Update 03-15-19 - An analysis from DRM's Government & Public Affairs Team

The Senate this week passed a bill imposing strict liability and medical monitoring obligations on commercial users of toxic substances on a 21-8 vote. Given the recent and intense focus on toxic releases of chemicals such as...more

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Tax bill will have big health care effects, none of them good

It may take days, weeks, years, or even a decade to fully determine what the Republicans in Washington have done to the nation’s health care with the U.S. Senate’s middle-of-the-night approval of more than $1 trillion in...more

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WPI Insider Briefing: New President, New Congress, New Direction in Workplace Policy

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President Donald J. Trump was sworn into office on January 20, 2017, ushering in a new balance of power in Washington and what is expected to be a dramatically different era of workplace policy. On his first day in office,...more

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