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A baker's dozen of significant changes in health reform

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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April 1 2010

The enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. 111-148) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (signed into law by President Obama on March 30, 2010) (collectively, PPACA or the Act) represents a significant legislative milestone that has proven elusive in American politics since the time of the Great Depression

ACOs, shared savings and the brave new world of regulation

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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April 7 2011

After much anticipation and consternation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (PPACA) Medicare shared savings program (MSSP) proposed rule, implementing Section 3022 of PPACA, was released to the public on March 31, 2011 (hereafter, Proposed Rule

Second policy options paper offers details for reforming everything including the kitchen sink

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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May 14 2009

On May 11, 2009, the second of three expected policy options papers on health system reform was released by the Senate Finance Committee

Health industry groups pledge to reduce spending

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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May 14 2009

In a letter sent to President Obama on May 11, 2009, a group of industry stakeholders representing hospitals, physicians, health insurers, drugmakers, medical device makers and labor representatives pledged to decrease the annual spending growth rate in healthcare by 20 percent for an estimated savings of $2 trillion or more

Medicare payment changes detailed in Obama's line-item budget request

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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May 14 2009

The Obama Administration formally released the President's line-item budget request to Congress on May 7, 2009

Reform - the storms of August blow into September

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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September 17 2009

With the stormy town halls of August still fresh in their minds, lawmakers returned to Congress after a month-long recess and resumed their work on healthcare reform

Third roundtable addresses proposals for financing health reform

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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May 28 2009

On May 12, 2009, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) held the third and final roundtable discussion on healthcare reform, previewing the multitude of policies slated for consideration when the Senate Finance Committee marks up reform legislation in June

The President’s 2010 budgeta down payment on health reform?

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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March 5 2009

Characterizing healthcare reform as key to the nation’s fiscal recovery, President Obama outlined his FY 2010 budget request to Congress in broad strokes last week

March Madness comes early to health reform

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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March 19 2009

March Madness came early to the health reform effort as the President and Congress announced an ambitious timeline for crafting legislation and signing it into law

MedPAC -- healthcare's new federal reserve?

Baker & Hostetler LLP
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USA
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June 11 2009

Legislation (S.1110) introduced on May 27, 2009, by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) would move the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to the executive branch and provide the agency with the authority to independently decide and implement Medicare reimbursement policy

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