LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY UPDATE
Week in Brief
Donald Trump Is Sworn in as 45th President of the United States.
President Trump Issues Executive Order on the Affordable Care Act.
CMS Announces Final Rule, Medicaid Program; Use of New or Increased Pass‐Through Payments in Medicaid Managed Care Delivery Systems.
Agencies Finalize Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects.
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
January 15
“Save Health Care” Rallies Coordinated by Senator Bernie Sanders (I‐VT) Draw Over 10,000 People in a Dozen States.
House Energy & Commerce Committee Publishes Post “BLAST FROM THE PAST: 50 States/50 Headlines Underscoring President’s Signature Law is ‘The Craziest Thing in the World.’”
January 17
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R‐UT) Announces Congressman Tom Price HHS Secretary Hearing Will Take Place January 24, 2017. Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D‐OR) Releases a Statement on Upcoming Hearing.
House Energy & Commerce Committee Highlights Nonpartisan CRS Report Entitled, CRS Responses to Health Insurance Exchange and Coverage Questions from the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
House Energy & Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D‐NJ) and House Ways & Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Vern Buchanan (R‐FL) Release Comments Regarding the CBO Report on the Impact of ACA Repeal.
HHS Secretary Nominee Congressman Tom Price (R‐GA) Faces Scrutiny for Investing in a Medical Device Company in 2016, Then Introducing a Bill Days Later that Would Relax Regulations Affecting the Company.
Senators Al Franken (D‐MN), Elizabeth Warren (D‐MA), and Tammy Baldwin (D‐WS) Ask HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R‐TN) to Postpone HHS Nominee Rep. Tom Price (R‐GA)’s Hearing Until Ethics Questions Surrounding His Financial Transitions Regarding Stocks Are More Thoroughly Investigated.
House Energy & Commerce Committee Releases Bipartisan Statement Regarding FDA’s Lack of Inspection Data on Roughly 1,000 Foreign Drug Firms Shipping to United States.
January 18
Senate HELP Committee Holds Hearing for HHS Secretary Nominee Congressman Tom Price (R‐GA). Senate HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R‐TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D‐WA) Release Statements Regarding the Hearing.
REGULATORY UPDATE
Department of Health and Human Services
January 17
CMS Announces Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) Data Deadline Extension for Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals Participating in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) and/or Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs; CMS Publicizes Intention to Modify the eCQM Requirements Established in the FY 2017 IPPS Final Rule.
CMS Updates Open Payments Program Data.
HRSA Requests Public Comments on the Information Collection Request, National Hospital Organ Donation Campaign’s Activity Scorecard OMB No. 0915‐0373—Revision.
January 18
SAMSHA Releases CBHSQ Report, Women of Childbearing Age and Opioids.
SAMHSA Announces Open Application Period for Cooperative Agreements for Tribal Behavioral Health.
CMS Announces Four Alternative Payment Models (APMs) Have Over 359,000 Clinicians Confirmed to Participate in 2017.
January 19
CMS Releases Corrected Independence at Home Demonstration Performance Year 2 Results.
HHS and DOJ Release Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2016.
OMHA Releases Notice, Medicare Program; Administrative Law Judge Hearing Program for Medicare Claim and Entitlement Appeals; Quarterly Listing of Program Issuances–October Through December 2016.
OTHER UPDATES
January 17
CBO Publishes How Repealing Portions of the Affordable Care Act Would Affect Health Insurance Coverage and Premiums.
January 18
GAO Publishes Reports,
- GAO: Summary of Performance and Financial Information, Fiscal Year 2016.
- National Institutes of Health: Kidney Disease Research Funding and Priority Setting.
January 19
GAO Releases Medicare Advantage: Limited Progress Made to Validate Encounter Data Used to Ensure Proper Payments.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Congressional Hearings
- Senate Finance Committee
- Hearing to Consider the Anticipated Nomination of the Honorable Tom Price to Be Secretary of Health and Human Services
- January 24 | 10 a.m.
215 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg.
- January 24 | 10 a.m.
- Hearing to Consider the Anticipated Nomination of the Honorable Tom Price to Be Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
- Meeting to Consider the Rules of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee for the 115th Congress and a Resolution Authorizing the Expenditures of the Committee for the 115th Congress
- January 24 | 3 p.m.
SR‐418 Russell Senate Office Bldg.
- January 24 | 3 p.m.
- Meeting to Consider the Rules of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee for the 115th Congress and a Resolution Authorizing the Expenditures of the Committee for the 115th Congress
- House Budget Committee
- Hearing: The Failures of Obamacare: Harmful Effects and Broken Promises
- January 24 | 10:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
1334 Longworth House Office Bldg.
- January 24 | 10:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
- Hearing: The Failures of Obamacare: Harmful Effects and Broken Promises
- House Ways & Means Oversight Subcommittee
- Hearing on Examining the Effectiveness of the Individual Mandate Under the Affordable Care Act
- January 24 | 2 p.m.
Room 100 Longworth House Office Bldg.
- January 24 | 2 p.m.
- Hearing on Examining the Effectiveness of the Individual Mandate Under the Affordable Care Act
Department of Health and Human Services
- HRSA National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps Meeting
- Discussion on 2017 priorities.
- January 25 | 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Webinar and Conference Call
- January 25 | 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
- Discussion on 2017 priorities.
- NIH Council of Councils Meeting
- Tracking Utility of Common Fund Data Sets, Small Molecules from the Human Microbiota, 2017 Biennial Advisory Council Report—Compliance with the NIH Policy on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities in Clinical Research, NIH Perspectives on Enhancing Scientific Rigor and Reproducibility, ODP’s FY14‐18 Strategic Plan: A Mid‐Course Review, and Peer Review Outcomes and Study Section Design.
- January 27 | 8:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
9000 Rockville Pike
Building 31, C Wing, Sixth Floor
Conference Room 10
Bethesda, MD 20892
- January 27 | 8:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
- Tracking Utility of Common Fund Data Sets, Small Molecules from the Human Microbiota, 2017 Biennial Advisory Council Report—Compliance with the NIH Policy on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities in Clinical Research, NIH Perspectives on Enhancing Scientific Rigor and Reproducibility, ODP’s FY14‐18 Strategic Plan: A Mid‐Course Review, and Peer Review Outcomes and Study Section Design.
Other Events
- National Coalition on Health Care Briefing: Value-Based Care: Its Progress, Its Future
- January 25 | 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.
902 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
- January 25 | 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.
- American Enterprise Institute’s The Imperial Presidency in the Age of Trump
- January 27 | 10:30 a.m.
AEI, Auditorium
1789 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20036
- January 27 | 10:30 a.m.
- National Academy of Social Insurance Conference’s Social Insurance: Opportunities and Challenges Facing the New Leadership and the American People
- January 25 | 4 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health
700 Second St. NE
Washington, DC 20002 - January 26 | 9 a.m. – 4:55 p.m.
National Press Club
13th Floor
529 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20045
- January 25 | 4 p.m. – 7 p.m.
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