Feb 1, 2017 | Directed Payments, Medicaid Managed Care, Medicaid Managed Page, News and Updates, Rulemaking
Just prior to the end of the Obama administration, on January 18, 2017, CMS published a final rule limiting the ability of states to create new or increased pass-through payments to providers in their Medicaid managed care programs. The rule’s effective date was...
Feb 1, 2017 | Executive Action, News and Updates
On January 20, 2017, the Trump administration issued a regulatory review memorandum, instructing agency heads to freeze new and pending regulations for review by the new administration. More specifically, the memorandum directs agency heads to: Send no regulations to...
Feb 1, 2017 | ACA, Executive Action, News and Updates
On Inauguration Day, President Trump signed an Executive Order instructing his administration to “exercise all authority and discretion available . . . to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation of” the Affordable Care Act (ACA) pending repeal...
Jan 31, 2017 | 340B, News and Updates
Jan. 31, 2017: HRSA has withdrawn its 340B Program Omnibus Guidelines. HRSA’s Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA) first issued the guidance, which would have dramatically restricted key elements of the program, in August 2015. OPA submitted the final version of...
Dec 13, 2016 | News and Updates, Rulemaking
Following the release of a Request for Information in August, CMS issued an interim final rule on December 12 requiring dialysis facilities that offer premium assistance for individual market health plans, whether directly or through a third party, to educate patients...
