Doctors cancel telehealth appointments as Medicare coverage lapses
Dr. Barbara Spivak, a primary care doctor, conducts a telehealth session with a patient in Watertown, Mass., on March 6, 2023.
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Trump, officials link Tylenol to autism as medical community balks
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chair Bill Cassidy, R-La., called the link between Tylenol and autism "bogus" during a Sept. 6 interview.
Neither side blinking yet as House preps for CR vote
There’s an unlikely, though attractive, scenario where if both chambers could clear the stopgap bill by this weekend, lawmakers wouldn’t then need to return to Washington until the week of Oct. 6.
Cassidy, who defied Trump, aims to win with increasingly conservative base
Speaking on ABC News after his vote, Cassidy said that it was clear to him that Trump incited the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, defining insurrection as the attempt to prevent the peaceful transition
GOP leaders work to convince House holdouts on budget package
The resolution squeaked through on a party-line 7-6 vote in committee. Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., said Wednesday he planned to vote against the rule on the floor.
Supreme Court clears way for Medicaid cut for Planned Parenthood
The 6-3 decision halts challenges that accuse states of violating the rights of Medicaid recipients to receive care from the doctor of their choice, which advocates from both sides said likely gives states
Senate GOP mulls shielding rural hospitals from Medicaid cuts
The Finance Committee’s proposal would cap provider taxes for states that expanded Medicaid at 3.5 percent, down from the current 6 percent.Conservatives have derided federal government matching of the
Supreme Court upholds Tennessee youth transgender care ban
The 6-3 decision, written by Chief Justice John G.
Walz and Johnson make misleading claims about bill’s impact on SNAP
The states would have to cover more of the benefit costs if their payment error rates — a measurement that includes overpayments and underpayments of benefits — exceed 6 percent.
Senate Republicans now face four big challenges
But Biden, through the American Rescue Plan and budgets and bills passed during his administration, kept outlays above $6 trillion during the course of his term.
Both sides launch ad campaigns over budget vote as bill moves to Senate
According to the May 6-8 survey of 1,200 registered voters in 72 targeted congressional districts, 72 percent favored work requirements for able-bodied adults who receive Medicaid benefits and 68 percent
As House members run for Senate, their seats become prime targets
Harris carried the district by 6 points last fall, according to calculations by The Downballot.
States’ Medicaid directed payments targeted for potential cuts
A state can tax providers to finance their share of these payments, but only up to 6 percent of a provider’s net patient revenues — the so-called safe harbor rate.
Hawley’s change of heart reflects evolving politics of Medicaid
Medicaid coverage is widespread in Missouri, covering one-fifth of the population, or 1.3 million people, including 2 in 3 nursing home residents, 1 in 6 Medicare beneficiaries and 40 percent of births
Simpson remembered as a giant of the Senate, literally
At 6 foot, 7 inches, he held the Senate record until it was broken by Luther Strange, an Alabama Republican who stood 6 foot, 9 inches. "What son of a bitch did that?"
Oz’s ties to insurers may loom over his CMS confirmation hearing
Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks during a meeting with business leaders at Washington Crossing Inn in Washington Crossing, Pa., on Nov. 6, 2022. Oz ran against Sen. John Fetterman for a Pennsylvania Senate seat.
Fact check: The war of words over Medicaid cuts
One example is lowering or banning Medicaid provider taxes, which are now capped at 6 percent.
No clear path to House budget adoption amid GOP holdouts
The vote is currently scheduled for after 6 p.m. Tuesday, though GOP leaders could always decide to pull it at the last minute.
CMS announces Medicare prices for first negotiated drugs
In a call on Wednesday night, Biden administration officials said the negotiated prices would have resulted in $6 billion in savings for Medicare if they had been in effect in 2023, and will save $1.5
Abortion ban spurs grieving mother to run for office
When her older daughter Adalie, now 6, was born, she remembers people coming in to check in on the baby but failing to ask how she felt.