Powers Principal Peter Thomas will moderate a Capitol Hill briefing today that will examine Medicare’s process for establishing local coverage policy for life-saving and life-enhancing technologies and health care services.Read More
Week in Brief
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) Announces that the House Will Vote on CHIP Legislation Next Week; Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) Announce an Agreement to Pair Affordable Care Act (ACA) Reforms with a Two-Year Funding Extension for Cost-Sharing Reductions (CSRs).
Powers Principal William von Oehsen was recently quoted in a Mic article discussing the Trump administration’s delay of a rule that would punish drug manufacturers that knowingly overcharge for prescription drugs sold through the 340B drug pricing program.Read More
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Senate HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) Announce New Legislation to Stabilize the Individual Insurance Market.
President Donald Trump Signs S.652, the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2017.
Powers Principal Peggy Tighe spoke about Independence at Home legislation at the American Academy of Home Care Medicine Annual Meeting in Chicago held earlier this month. Read More
President Trump signed into law the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act (EHDI Act), S.652, a bill that Peter Thomas, JD and Leif Brierley, MPH of the Powers Government Relations and Public Policy team worked to advance on behalf of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance.Read More
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President Trump Issues an Executive Order Allowing Small Businesses to Purchase Insurance Across State Lines. U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Acting Secretary Eric Hargan and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma Announce that Cost-Sharing Reductions Payments Will Be Discontinued Immediately.
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to approve legislation to extend and expand the Independence at Home (IAH) this month, a bill Powers Principal Peggy Tighe has worked to advance on behalf of the American Academy of Home Care Medicine and dozens of allies.Read More
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CHIP Legislation Advances in both the House and the Senate. House Energy & Commerce Committee Advances Independence at Home Legislation. The Senate Confirms Eric Hargan as Deputy Secretary of HHS, and Representative Tim Murphy (R-PA) Chairman of the House Oversight & Investigations Committee Resigns from Congress.
Powers Principal Brian Gunn was recently quoted in a Law360 article discussing Allergan’s patent deal and whether Congress will get involved in the case.Read More
Powers Principal Barbara Straub Williams will be speaking tomorrow about 340B program compliance at the American Health Lawyers Association Fraud and Compliance Forum.Read More
In a press release on September 22, 2017, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education withdrew two statements of policy and guidance regarding Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) and issued new interim guidance.
The Department withdrew the Dear Colleague Letter on Sexual Violence issued by OCR on April 4, 2011 (2011 DCL) and the Questions and Answers on Title IX and Sexual Violence issued by OCR on April 29, 2014 (2014 Q&A). In a letter dated September 22, 2017, the Department explained that it was withdrawing the Obama-era guidance documents because they were created without affording notice and the opportunity for public comment and the guidance forced institutions to adopt procedures that did not afford fundamental fairness and due process and were not required by Title IX law or regulation.
Week in Brief
Senate Finance Committee Holds a Hearing on the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson Proposal, but No Vote is Held. The Senate Passes the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic Care Act of 2017 (CHRONIC), and HHS Secretary Tom Price Resigns.