Powers Principal Jim Jorling, Associate Leela Baggett, and Summer Associate Allie Hussey authored a memorandum summarizing key aspects of an ESRD program under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule on Specialty Care Models to Improve Quality of Care and Reduce Expenditure.
Powers Principal Rob Portman participated in a presentation on the role of the General Counsel in Medical Societies at the June 10, 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Medical Association Counsel (ASMAC). Read More
Powers Principal Peggy Tighe served on the host committee for the July 24 retirement party of Judy Schneider, a Congressional Research Service Specialist known for her over 40 years of service to Congress and the government relations community.
Powers Principal Peggy Tighe has been nominated for the Excellence in Advocacy award, an annual award presented by the organizers of the Professional Women in Advocacy (PWIA) Conference. She was nominated by Cathy Grealy Cohen, MHSA, CAE; Vice President of Governmental Affairs for the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
Powers Education Counsel Laura Sitarski will moderate a panel on admissions best practices on August 1st, 2019 at the Florida Association of Postsecondary Schools and Colleges (FAPSC) Annual Conference.
WASHINGTON, DC—June 17, 2019— The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced that it will settle inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) appeals at rates very favorable to IRFs. The settlement was negotiated by Powers attorneys Peter Thomas and Ron Connelly on behalf of the Fund for Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation (FAIR), the American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association (AMRPA), and the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH). FAIR’s participation in litigation challenging the backlog of Medicare Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) appeals was an important factor bringing CMS to the negotiating table.Read More
Powers principal Peggy Tighe and the Regulatory Relief Coalition (RRC) recently shepherded the introduction of new legislation in the House of Representatives to reform the use of prior authorization in the Medicare Advantage program.
Powers Principal Diane Millman Speaks at ATC 2019
Powers Principal Diane Millman spoke at the American Transplant Congress (ATC) last week in Boston, Massachusetts on behalf of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS).
After nearly a decade bearing the moniker “Select Committee,” on June 5, 1984, the United States Senate voted to make permanent the Committee on Indian Affairs. Paul was the Committee’s Staff Director and Chief Counsel to Chairman Ben Nighthorse Campbell, the first American Indian to chair the Committee, from 1997 to 2005. Paul joined his former colleagues — staff directors from 1977 to 2019 — in celebrating the bi-partisan successes of the Committee in helping to improve the conditions of tribal communities across the country.
Powers Principal Peggy Tighe presented on congressional advocacy at the inaugural Global Innovations in Patient-Centered Kidney Care Summit, held on Thursday, May 23 in Washington, D.C.