Congress Reaches Deal on Extending Physician Fix Without Cutting Home Health
Congress has reached a deal on legislation that would extend the payroll tax holiday, extend unemployment insurance coverage, and rescue physicians from a 27 percent cut in their Medicare fees. The...
View ArticleBondi: Feds’ Power Grab Must Be Stopped
By Pam Bondi, Florida Attorney General Florida and more than half of the states in the nation have challenged the federal government’s Affordable Care Act because it deprives Americans of their...
View ArticleHouse Ways and Means Panel to Review IRS and Health Care Law
A House Ways and Means subcommittee will review next week the Internal Revenue Service’s role in the Affordable Care Act. House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany, R-LA,...
View ArticleHouse Committee Examines Status of Private Medicare Health Plans
Enrollment Increases Despite Cuts in Payments The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing recently on the current status of private Medicare health plans under the Medicare Advantage (MA) program...
View ArticleFlorida Lawmakers Appointed to Influential Health Care Committees in Congress
Calling All Advocates to Connect with Lawmakers! Democratic Senator Bill Nelson and Reps. Gus Bilirakis (R-Palm Harbor), Vern Buchanan (R-Longboat Key) and Kathy Castor (D-Tampa) have been appointed to...
View ArticleSenior Groups Submit Testimony Opposing Home Health Copays
The Leadership Council of Aging Organizations, a coalition of national organizations representing over 60 million older Americans, recently submitted written testimony to the House Ways and Means...
View ArticleHouse Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health Holds Hearing on Medicare...
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health recently held a hearing that looked at ways to redesign the Medicare benefit. The hearing’s witnesses were: Katherine Baicker, Ph.D.Professor,...
View ArticleHouse Ways and Means Committee Releases Draft Legislation – Includes a 1.1...
Late last week the House Ways and Means Committee released draft legislation that would significantly alter post-acute care under the Medicare program. Proposals included in the draft legislation range...
View ArticleEnergy and Commerce and Ways and Means Committees Explore Proposals to...
The Chairmen of the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means Committees, as well as the Chairmen of the respective Health Subcommittees, recently released the first in a series of bi-committee...
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