Congress · 119th Congress
Florida officials, lawmakers probe stalled Medicaid application
↵↵Beginning Jan. 1, 2028, those payments will be reduced by 10 percent each year until they reach the rates stipulated in the reconciliation law.
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Congress · 119th Congress
States eager for final decisions on $50B health care fund
↵↵The wide-ranging law reduces health spending by about $1 trillion over a decade, primarily from changes and cutbacks to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges.
Trump’s approach to lowering drug costs is raising questions
The list of 2027 Medicare price negotiations includes popular GLP-1 medications used to treat obesity and diabetes.
Doctors cancel telehealth appointments as Medicare coverage lapses
Those not well-steeped in the latest from Washington saw that telehealth coverage expired on Oct. 1 and have stopped offering those services to Medicare beneficiaries.
Trump-Democrats meeting drama fuels risk of shutdown
Shutdown countdown Scratching the meeting increases the likelihood that a partial shutdown will be triggered when the new fiscal year begins on Oct. 1.
Oz offers recourse if Congress can’t quickly resolve subsidies
If Congress extends the credits after the Nov. 1 start of open enrollment, the administration could offer consumers a special enrollment period to sign up for health insurance coverage on the marketplace
GOP leaders try to quell stopgap concerns as House vote nears
It would also repeal health care-related changes made by Republicans’ "big, beautiful" reconciliation law, including around $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and other programs over a decade.
Major insurers pledge to improve preauthorization
Insurers would also reduce the number of services subject to prior authorization requirements by Jan. 1, 2026, and ensure continuity for patients who are changing insurance plans.
Rare Disease Patients Await Congressional Action on Life-Saving Treatments
It would cost less than 1% of projected savings from the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program to enact ORPHAN Cures.
White House rule would expand coverage of anti-obesity drugsÂ
The proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human Services seeks to expand when Medicare and Medicaid can cover anti-obesity drugs known as GLP-1 inhibitors, sold as Zepbound, Ozempic, Mounjaro
Future of Medicare drug price negotiations murky under Trump
The Biden administration said those negotiated prices, which take effect Jan. 1, 2026, would have saved Medicare $6 billion if they were in effect last year.
Fact-checking Vance’s health policy claims
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, participate in a debate at the CBS Broadcast Center on Oct. 1, 2024, in New York City.
Harris to propose tax cuts for newborns, funds for first-time homebuyers
CMS announced the price list for the first 10 drugs, with the reduced sticker prices due to take effect on Jan. 1, 2026.
CMS announces Medicare prices for first negotiated drugs
The prices take effect Jan. 1, 2026. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are expected to tout the news at an event in Prince George’s County, Md.
Physicians lobby Congress on Medicare pay cuts
But lawmakers have not acted on the issue this year because of a series of stopgap spending bills, and the cuts took effect Jan. 1.
Tensions high as Medicare drug negotiations advance
The agency is expected to send its first offer to the companies Feb. 1, 2024, and finalize negotiations Aug. 1 of next year. Prices would be published Sept. 1, taking effect in 2026.
Medicare pandemic advances deepen debt for some hospitals
Greenwood is also waiting to hear back on an application for critical access status — a designation that applies to Ozarks — which would grant the hospital a 1 percent bonus on Medicare claims.
HHS lists first 10 drugs subject to Medicare price negotiation
New prices take effect Jan. 1, 2026.
Families, states chart path forward on paid caregiving
A spokesperson for the Ohio Department of Medicaid said the state aims to have the new program begin Jan. 1. Â
Biden’s pick to lead the CDC faces tough summer on Capitol Hill
Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, predicted the deal will mean flat funding or a roughly 1 percent cut across the board in fiscal 2024 for the CDC.