This Week: House Ways & Means Committee Holds Markup; Makes Significant Legislative Changes to Health Care Bills... Senate Finance Committee Holds Markup on Medicare Appeals Process Bill... CMS Issues Final Rule on Accountable Care Organizations... CMS Posts Proposed Health Insurance Rate Increases for 2016
1. Congress
House of Representatives
- House Ways & Means Committee Holds Markup; Makes Significant Legislative Changes to Health Care Bills
- House E&C Committee Held Hearing to Reduce Medicaid Fraud
Senate
- Senate Judiciary Approves Patent Reform Legislation
- Senators Reintroduce Bipartisan Bill Aimed at Increasing and Improving Opioid Addiction Treatment
- Bipartisan Bill to Improve Rural Health Care Introduced
- Senate Finance Committee Holds Markup on Medicare Appeals Process Bill
2. Administration
- CMS Releases New Medicare Data on Hospital and Physician Utilization
- CMS Posts Proposed Health Insurance Rate Increases for 2016
- CMS Announces New Policy to Allow Entrepreneurs and Innovators to Have Access to Medicare Data
- CMS Releases First Quarter Effectuated Enrollment Numbers
- CMS Issues Final Rule on Accountable Care Organizations
- FDA Guidance Clarifies Interchangeability Determinations in 351(k) Application
- FDA Deadline Extended for Electronic Submission of Drug and Biologic Safety Reports
3. State Activities
- Pennsylvania Announces First ACA Contingency Plan for Subsidies
- Connecticut Exchange Approves FY 2016 Self-Sustaining Budget
4. Regulations Open for Comment
- CMS Released Proposed Rule Concerning Medicaid and CHIP Plans
- FDA Releases Draft Guidance on Use Adaptive Trial Designs for Medical Devices
- FDA Releases Guidance on Standardizing Study Data for Drug Makers
- FDA: Guidance Released on Investigational New Drug Applications
- CMS Updates Wage Index and Payment Rates for the Medicare Hospice Benefit
- Proposed FY 2016 Medicare Payment and Policy Changes for Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities
- CMS Releases Proposed Rule on FY 2016 Medicare Payments for Inpatient Rehab Facilities
- Fiscal Year 2016 Proposed Inpatient and Long-term Care Hospital Policy and Payment Changes
- Proposed FY 2016 Payment and Policy Changes for Medicare Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF)
- CMS Proposes Mental Health Parity for Medicaid and CHIP in New Rule
- HHS Releases Proposed Rules on EHR Incentive Programs and Health IT Certification Criteria
5. Reports
