LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY UPDATE
Week in Brief
The House Releases Tax Reform Legislation and the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis Releases its Final Report.
WHITE HOUSE UPDATE
November 1
Opioid Crisis: White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders Issues a Statement on the Final Report of the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis.
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
October 31
21st Century Cures Act: The Senate HELP Committee Holds a Hearing Entitled Implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act: Achieving the Promise of Health Information Technology.
Executive Order: House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-NJ), House Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), House Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) Send a Letter to Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta, Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin, and Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services Eric Hargan Regarding the Implementation of the Executive Order Entitled Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition across the United States.
November 1
Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB): Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD), and Budget Committee Ranking Member John Yarmuth (D-KY) Issue a Statement on Attempts to Repeal IPAB.
Open Enrollment: Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) Issue Statements on the First Day of Open Enrollment for Americans Purchasing Health Insurance on the Individual Market.
340B Program: Senate HELP Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray Issues a Statement on the Change to the Current Medicare Part B Payment Methodology for 340B Hospitals.
November 2
Hurricane Recovery: The House Energy and Commerce Committee Holds a Hearing Entitled The 2017 Hurricane Season: A Review of Emergency Response and Energy Infrastructure Recovery Efforts.
Tax Reform: The House Releases Tax Reform Legislation. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) Issue Statements. House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) also Issues a Statement Regarding an Amendment.
November 3
Veteran’s Health: Members of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Led by Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) and Ranking Member Tim Walz (D-MN), Introduce a Bill to Update the Veteran’s Community Care Accounts into One Program, Replacing the Choice Program.
REGULATORY UPDATE
Department of Health and Human Services
October 30
Qualified Health Plans: ASPE Issues Research Brief, Health Plan Choice and Premiums in the 2018 Federal Health Insurance Exchange.
November 1
340B Program & OPPS: CMS Releases the CY 2018 OPPS Final Rule, Which Changes the Current Medicare Part B Payment Methodology for 340B Hospitals.
ESRD: CMS Finalizes the CY 2018 ESRD PPS and Outlines the Requirements for the ESRD Quality Incentive Program.
Home Health: CMS Announces an Update to the CY2018 Home Health Prospective Payment System and the CY2019 Case-Mix Adjustment Methodology. The Rule also Finalizes Changes in the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model and Home Health Quality Reporting Requirements.
November 2
ACA: CMS Releases a Proposed Rule that Provides Payment Parameters Related to Risk Adjustment and Risk Adjustment Data Validations Programs, Cost-Sharing Reductions, and User Fees for Federally-facilitated Exchanges and State-based Exchanges on the Federal Platform.
Physician Fee Schedule: CMS Issues a Final Rule Concerning Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2018, Medicare Shared Savings Program, and Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program.
MACRA: CMS Announces the CY 2018 Updates to the Quality Payment Program; and Quality Payment Program: Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstance Policy for the Transition Year.
November 3
DSH: CMS Announces the Final FY 2015 and Preliminary FY 2015 Disproportionate Share Hospital Allotments, and Final FY 2015 and Preliminary FY 2017 Institutions for Mental Diseases Disproportional Share Hospital Limits.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Congressional Hearings
House Energy & Commerce Committee
MACRA and Alternative Payment Models: Developing Options for Value-Based Care
• November 8, 2017 | 10:00a.m.
2123 Rayburn House Office Building
House Ways & Means Committee
Markup of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
• November 6, 2017 | 12:00p.m.
1100 Longworth House Office Building
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