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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 —...
U.S. HHS Releases Final Title X Rule Detailing Family Planning Grant Program
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the final rule to revise the regulations governing the...
CMS Updates its Emergency Preparedness Rule
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has made two changes to its Emergency Preparedness Appendix Z....
