Polsinelli Podcasts - Confusion to Clarity on the Future of the 340B Program
House Education & the Workforce Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Holds Hearing on ERISA’s 50th Anniversary. Members and witnesses assessed how the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA)...more
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 levels requirement; HHS requests...more
This Week in Washington: Debt Limit fight continues; Disagreements arise during Senate HELP Committee mark-up of PBM and Generic Drug Competition Bills...more
This Week in Washington: 118th Congress begins, House finally chooses Speaker...more
This Week in Washington: All Efforts Are on Funding the Government Through the Rest of the Fiscal Year...more
This Week in Washington: House Passes FDA User Fee Reauthorization Package...more
This Week in Washington: Senate Fails to Advance Bill Protecting Abortion Rights After Supreme Court Draft Opinion Leak...more
This Week in Washington: COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Extended for 90 More Days...more
This Week in Washington: Senate HELP Committee Chair Patty Murray and Ranking Member Richard Burr Release Discussion Draft of Bipartisan Pandemic and Public Health Response Bill....more
On December 17, 2021, CMS issued a final rule implementing three changes to Medicare’s payment rules for graduate medical education that Congress enacted last year in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA). The final...more
This week in Washington: President Biden acknowledges that the Build Back Better Act might not pass Congress this year....more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the Final Rule with a comment period for the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals; Changes to Medicare Graduate Medical...more
Upcoming Hearings/Markups - December 8 - House Agriculture Committee, Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations Subcommittee Hearing: “Review of USDA Nutrition Distribution Programs”...more
After some implementation delays, the final rule updating Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) performance measures took effect April 1, 2021. The final rule, titled, “Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Organ Procurement...more
The Situation: A Final Rule published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services carries a provision that reduces reimbursement for most 340B Program drugs dispensed by disproportionate share hospitals and rural referral...more
On November 13, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final rule, “Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting...more