LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY UPDATE
Week in Brief
House Energy & Commerce Committee Marks Up Five Bills Related to Various Healthcare Issues, Including the Mental Health First Aid Bill.
CMS Data Shows an 8% Decrease in Hospital Readmission Rates Nationally Between 2010 and 2015.
WHITE HOUSE UPDATE
September 14
OMB Receives Final Rule on Merit-Based Incentive Payment System and Alternative Payment Models in Medicare Fee-for-Services.
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
September 12
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Highlights GAO Reports Finding Health Insurance Marketplace Fraud Vulnerabilities.
Republican Leaders of Senate Finance, House Ways & Means, and House Energy & Commerce Committees Send Letter to CMS Concerning Medicare Fraud.
September 14
House Ways & Means Committee Holds Hearing on Spurring Health Care Innovation.
Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Johnny Isakson (R-GA) Issues Statement Urging Continued VA Reform Using Commission on Care Recommendations.
House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Conducts Joint Hearing on the Affordable Care Act; Ranking Member Franke Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) Issues Statement Related to the Hearing.
September 15
House Energy & Commerce Committee to Repackage 21st Century Cures Bill, Renew Push for Passage.
Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee Holds Hearing on the State of Health Insurance Markets.
House Energy & Commerce Committee Republican Leaders Sent a Referral Letter to HHS-OIG Regarding the NFL-NIH Grant.
Senate HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) Releases Statement on Public Option Plan Proposed by Senate Democrats.
REGULATORY UPDATE
Department of Health and Human Services
September 14
HHS OIG Releases its Medicaid Fraud Control Units Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Report, Announcing $744 Million in Criminal and Civil Recoveries.
Other News
GAO Releases Reports:
UPCOMING EVENTS
Congressional Hearings/Markups
- Senate HELP Committee
- Laboratory Testing in the Era of Precision Medicine
- September 20| 10 a.m.
- 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building
- September 20| 10 a.m.
- Laboratory Testing in the Era of Precision Medicine
- S._, Career and Technical Education Act of 2016; S. 2873, ECHO Act; S. 2932, Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2016; and Nominations
- September 21| 9:30 a.m.
- 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building
- September 21| 9:30 a.m.
- House Oversight & Government Reform
- Reviewing the Rising Price of EpiPens
- September 21 |2 p.m.
- 2154 Rayburn HOB
- September 21 |2 p.m.
- Reviewing the Rising Price of EpiPens
Department of Health and Human Services
- Meeting of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
- Presentations on antibiotic resistance prevention, stewardship, innovation.
- September 19 | 12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Great Hall
200 Independence Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20201
Or webcast
- September 19 | 12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
- Presentations on antibiotic resistance prevention, stewardship, innovation.
- Meeting of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council
- Discussion on program policies and issues.
- September 20 | 1: p.m. to 5 p.m.
NIH
Building 35A
Porter Building, Room 640
Bethesda, MD 20892
- September 20 | 1: p.m. to 5 p.m.
- Discussion on program policies and issues.
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