Feb 24, 2017 | ACA, Legislation, News and Updates
On February 24th 2017, a leaked draft of the House Republican bill to repeal the ACA was obtained by multiple news publications. The bill would institute per capita caps into the Medicaid program and roll back the program’s overall spending. It would set aside...
Feb 1, 2017 | Executive Action, News and Updates, Rulemaking
On January 30, 2017, President Trump signed an Executive Order requiring agencies proposing any new regulation to identify at least two existing regulations for repeal. The Executive Order also directs agency heads that any new incremental costs associated with a new...
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Jan. 31, 2017: HRSA has withdrawn its 340B Program Omnibus Guidelines.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...
