Veterans Community Care Program Proposed Rule Issued
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has issued a proposed ruleimplementing provisions of the Veterans Community Care Program — authorized by the MISSION Act...
Grassley Renews Probe of Non-Profit, Tax-Exempt Hospitals
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen.
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is reopening a years-old probe into tax-exempt
hospitals, saying that he's concerned the hospitals aren't using billions of
dollars...
Opioid Prescribing Mapping Tool Improved with Medicaid and Rural Data
Feb 22, 2019 - CMS PRESS RELEASE:
​New features offer local communities greater transparency into opioid prescribing rates
Feb 22, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
Health care news around the country
POLITICOPRO Health Care:By Brianna Ehley
The FDA will soon require drug companies to study whether prescription opioids already on the market are effective in managing...
Hearings on the hill
Busy week next week on the Hill regarding healthcare hot topics.
03/05/19 10:00 AM ESTHearing: Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions CommitteeThe Senate Health, Education,...
CMS Nursing Home 5 Star Freeze Update
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provided LeadingAge with information that the 5-Star Health Inspection Rating freeze will be lifted soon and that...
CMS Data on Geographic Variation in the Medicare Program Released
Centers of Medicare and Medicaid posted the annual release of the Geographic Variation Public Use File, or PUF, with data for 2007 to 2017....
CMS Guidance on Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule Reporting
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued additional guidance for laboratories that are required to report private payer data for laboratory tests...
Updated: FDA Commissioner Gottlieb to step-down.
POLITICO: Adriel Bettelheim, Sarah Karlin-Smith, Sarah Owermohle, Helena Bottemiller Evich and Alice Miranda Ollstein contributed to this report.
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, an unusually...
Trump budget could save $69 billion on drug costs
By Sarah Karlin-Smith with PoliticoPro
​The White House's proposed fiscal 2020 budget includes a slew of changes to Medicare, Medicaid, the FDA and the 340B...
