Trump’s proposed 2020 budget reduces funding for rural health programs
The White House recently released its fiscal year 2020 budget, which would be devastating for the rural health safety net and includes funding cuts...
FDA Released Draft Guidance on E-cigarette Sale Restrictions
On March 13, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released much anticipated draft guidance​ designed to restrict how and where flavored e-cigarettes are...
Trump’s Budget Proposal for Medicaid Changes
By Adam Cancryn with PoliticoPro
​The Trump administration is calling once again for a broad overhaul of Medicaid as part of its budget request...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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,...
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...
