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LEGISLATIVE UPDATES This Week: Senate to Release First Spending Bills and Healthcare Activity in the House This is the last week before Congress heads out for a two-week Fourth of [...]

Under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is authorized to [...]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued new guidance extending the timeline for health care providers that received more than $10,000 in payments from the Provider [...]

Top pre settlement funding firm allocating more lawsuit funding cash in light of a recently passed New York law advocating for sexual assault survivors ALBANY, N.Y., Feb. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ [...]

Below is this week's 'Capitol Hill Healthcare Update,' which is posted on Mondays when Congress is in session. Highlights this week: Healthcare legislative priorities are caught up in a separate [...]

Byline: Catherine Sweeney OKLAHOMA CITY Lawmakers handled some immediately pressing business on Tuesday, unanimously passing two funding bills out of committee. The measures would give money to the Department of [...]

HONOLULU: Compassion & Choices has issued the following press release: -- Compassion & Choices Hawai'i today announced that its public education campaign about the Our Care, Our Choice Act has [...]

Byline: Tom Philpott More than two million claims for private sector emergency healthcare services provided to VA-enrolled veterans since February 2010 could be eligible for VA reimbursement if a recent [...]

Congressman Roger Williams (R Austin), who represents Fort Hood, one of the largest United States military installations in the world, released the following statement Thursday after the House passed S. [...]

H.R. 1314, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, was signed into law by President Obama on November 2, 2015. The two-year budget framework, which raises the federal debt limit through [...]

On July 9, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ('CMS') issued a proposed rule that seeks to implement a mandatory episode-based payment model for lower extremity joint replacement [...]

On July 8th 2015 the Chancellor of the Exchequer confirmed his Government's commitment to provide additional funding for the NHS however there was little if any mention of social care [...]

House Budget It was a week of herding cats for the House Leadership as they worked their budget through caucus, subcommittees, caucus, committee, caucus, then caucus again, caucus again, and [...]

Every year since 1976, Congress has quietly passed the Hyde Amendment. This annual legislative provision prohibits federal Medicaid funds from covering abortions except in cases of rape, incest or life [...]

This is the sixth post in Health Care Law Today's series on the proposed rule modifying the Medicare Shared Savings Program ('MSSP'). The proposed rule was published in the Federal [...]

Although health care reform implementation via the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has focused mostly on federal changes to the health care marketplace, individual States are getting some much needed help [...]

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- The following information was released by the California Hospital Association (CHA): A broad coalition of health care providers and community groups announced today that they have [...]

CONCORD, NH -- The following information was released by the office of the governor of New Hampshire: Enacting the most significant measure in decades to strengthen the health of New [...]

Byline: Valerie Yu - Point Lately, thereâs been a wave of change sweeping through California, granting increased privileges and rights to undocumented immigrants. In September 2013, the state assembly voted [...]

Dec. 28--It is strange that there has been none of the outcry about health care rationing voiced over Gov. Jan Brewer's plans to cut AHCCCS in Arizona that was heard [...]

Byline: Ernie Suggs If a Katrina-like catastrophe hit Atlanta or an earthquake similar to the one that struck Haiti ravaged Georgia, it would be difficult for volunteer doctors, nurses and [...]

On December 26, 2013, President Obama signed into law H.J. Res. 59, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, which includes the Pathway for SGR Reform Act of 2013 ('the Act'). [...]

Struggling to find ways to pay for the president's signature health care overhaul, the administration on Monday proposed to raise nearly $60 billion more over 10 years mostly from tightening […]

State legislative fiscal directors who say closing new budget gaps is one of the most significant challenges they will face in the new year, cited the budget, health care and [...]

TRENTON, NJ -- The following information was released by the New Jersey General Assembly, Majority Office: Legislation Assembly Democrats Angel Fuentes, Albert Coutinho, Angelica Jimenez and John Burzichelli sponsored to [...]

Governor's Veto Pledge Hangs Over Augusta Last week, Governor LePage appeared on a morning radio show and announced that he will veto all legislation that is sent to him until [...]

Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) January 28, 2013 Congress and the Obama administration continue to discuss the budget deficit, and cuts to Medicare are a part of the discussion. The Medicare sustainable [...]

Byline: Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Jan. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Twenty-one hours after the U.S. Senate did its part to steer the country clear of the so-called fiscal cliff, [...]