Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

On April 1, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced states may seek to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from 60 days to one year through a new state plan option offered by the American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”). In states that have not expanded Medicaid, however, many postpartum women lose coverage.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Just another name for a government-run, single payer system. Seema Verma, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services . Just another name for a government-run, single payer system. Imagine funding the rest of government, from defense to education, at a level 30 percent less than today, or imagine a $2.5

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Verisys

MARCH 24, 2022

Healthcare facilities receive billions of dollars in federal and state funding through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and other programs. government can still impose fines for doing business with these companies, even if an organization’s non-compliance was not intentional. However, the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2018

Seniors and government programs over-paying for drugs. Foreign governments’ “free-riding” Americans’ investment in innovation. The blueprint for restructuring the prescription drug industry, is called “American Patients First,” addressing four challenges: High list prices for drugs.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

million people in 2017. In addition, people living in states that failed to expand Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act provisions were also at greater risk of inadequate coverage. In fact, the number of uninsured Americans rose by 2 million people in 2018 , and by 1.9 By September 2020, about 36 million people in the U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Biden’s calls for bipartisanship to extend health programs like pandemic-era subsidies for Affordable Care Act health plans are expected to clash with conservative demands to slash federal government spending. And last year’s Senate fights demonstrate that sometimes the opposition comes from within the Democratic Party.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 12, 2023

Indeed, one of the first orders of business in the new Congress was the re-establishment of a committee on the covid pandemic with a new focus on investigating the origins of the virus and the government’s response to it. But also, for the first time, Medicare, or the federal government is starting to take on drug prices directly.

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