Medicaid, Biden Administration, Healthcare

The Regulatory Race Is On: The Biden Administration Sprints to Issue Key Health Policies

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 4/25/2024

The upcoming election, and the approaching end of the President’s four-year term, introduce additional dynamics into the agencies’ rulemaking process and even the guidance process. From now through the November election, the...more

DOJ Releases COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force Report Touting Its Successes and Urging Lawmakers to Enact New Legislation

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 4/19/2024

The government’s continued dedication of resources to investigating and prosecuting fraud against COVID-19 pandemic relief programs appears to have borne fruit according to the results of the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task...more

President Biden Releases FY 2025 Budget: What’s NOT in It?

McDermott+ on 3/14/2024

Earlier this week, President Biden released his Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 President’s Budget. As a reminder, every year, the White House releases a budget that serves as its official funding request to Congress for the following...more

Healthcare Preview for the Week of: June 5, 2023

McDermott+ on 6/6/2023

Debt Limit Extended . . . Now What? Late last week, Congress reached a bipartisan, bicameral deal to suspend the debt ceiling into 2025. Over the weekend, President Biden signed the bill into law, preventing the United...more

Stay Flexible: Healthcare Providers Face Changes with the End of the Federal Public Health Emergency

Sands Anderson PC on 4/27/2023

Over the past three years, the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) declared in response to the COVID-19 pandemic facilitated the dismantling of various legal and regulatory barriers to obtaining healthcare in a time of...more

One Month Until May 11, 2023 – the Expiration Date for the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Bodman on 4/11/2023

The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) first declared the existence of a public health emergency (PHE) on January 31, 2020. The PHE allowed HHS to implement a number of regulatory waivers and...more

Growing Scrutiny of Private Equity in Health Care

Foley & Lardner LLP on 3/30/2023

The presence of private equity (PE) investment has exploded in recent years in all areas of the health care sector. PE in health care is a good thing when done right: It can pave the way for much needed innovation,...more

Federal Judge Reinstates Georgia Section 1115 Waiver

King & Spalding on 10/6/2022

On August 19, 2022, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia reinstated “Georgia Pathways,” a Section 1115 demonstration waiver which requires individuals, among other conditions, to complete 80...more

Summary of Health Care Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 8/17/2022

After more than a year of negotiations, the House and Senate Democrats have advanced some of President Joe Biden’s highest policy priorities. The landmark legislation, entitled the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), makes...more

Treasury Releases Proposal to Address ‘Family Glitch’ as Biden Administration Touts Coverage Gains

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 4/7/2022

On April 5, President Biden held an event at the White House celebrating coverage gains since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Joined by Vice President Harris and former President Obama, President Biden...more

Congress Includes Medicare, Medicaid and Other Health Policies in Omnibus FY 2022 Spending Bill

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 3/17/2022

After weeks of negotiations and months of temporary stopgap funding bills since the federal fiscal year started in October 2021, on Tuesday, the President signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, an omnibus funding...more

Proposal Calls for Increased Transparency of Ownership for Privately Owned Nursing Homes

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 3/9/2022

Continuing the theme of increased transparency of ownership of nursing homes included in the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the White House issued a Fact Sheet titled “Protecting Seniors and People with Disabilities by Improving...more

What’s Ahead for Federal Health Policy in 2022

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 2/4/2022

As the Biden administration begins its second year in office, the administration remains focused on its core health policy agenda—advancing coverage, access and equity....more

Build Back Better: All Eyes on the Senate

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 12/8/2021

The Big Picture - On November 19, the House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better Act (BBB) (H.R. 5376) by a vote of 220–213. The BBB contains a number of health and social policy priorities that are widely viewed...more

President Biden Announces Healthcare Provisions in Build Back Better Framework

King & Spalding on 11/3/2021

Last week, President Biden presented an outline of a $1.75 trillion Build Back Better (BBB) social spending reconciliation framework resulting from months of negotiations with House and Senate Democrats. Congressional...more

Analysis of Health Care Provisions Included in Biden Administration FY 2022 Budget Request

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 6/1/2021

Today, Friday May 28, President Joe Biden unveiled his Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 budget request, the first of his presidency. The $6 trillion proposal calls for $1.7 trillion in discretionary spending and $4.0 trillion in...more

Revocation of the “Public Charge” Rule

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law on 3/16/2021

Readers of our blog know that Haider, Alex and I have a longstanding interest in the intersection of health care law and immigration law. That’s important for our blog, especially because of the needs of the immigrant...more

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