CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES

Bills and resolutions

Government regulations: require repayment of appropriated funds that are illegaly disbursed for political purposes (see S. 2473), S6087 [21MY] (see H.R. 4458), H3439 (see H.R. 4458), H3539 [20MY]

Insurance: expand the risk pools that qualify for high risk pool grants (see H.R. 5157), H7735 [28SE]

Medicare: increase Federal oversight of the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and revoke its unique ability to accredit hospitals (see S. 2698), S8474 [20JY] (see H.R. 4877), H6127 [20JY]

Office of the Chief Actuary: provide direct congressional access (see S. 2076), S1285 [12FE]

Remarks in House

Budget: combat waste, fraud, and abuse, H1205 [17MR], H2624 [5MY]

Dept. of HHS: investigation into allegation of firing threats relative to disclosure of cost of Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, H1219-H1225 [17MR], H1231, H1232, H1233 [18MR], H1613 [29MR], H2500, H2526 [4MY], H3588 [1JN], H5201 [7JY], H5541 [13JY], H5658 [14JY]

———Office of the Sec. funding, H6941, H6942 [9SE]

Hospitals: withhold implementation of 75 percent rule relative to hospital inpatient rehabilitation care pending independent assessment by medical experts, H6836, H6837 [8SE], H6977 [9SE]

Medicare: increase Federal oversight of the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and revoke its unique ability to accredit hospitals (H.R. 4877), E1436 [21JY]

Remarks in Senate

Dept. of HHS: investigation into allegation of firing threats relative to disclosure of cost of Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, S3051, S3058-S3060 [24MR], S3319 [30MR], S4784 [4MY], S7118 [22JN]

Government regulations: require repayment of appropriated funds that are illegaly disbursed for political purposes (S. 2473), S6088 [21MY]

McClellan, Mark B.: confirmation as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator, S2760, S2761, S2765, S2773 [12MR]

———nomination to be Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator, S2431 [9MR]

Medicare: increase Federal oversight of the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and revoke its unique ability to accredit hospitals (S. 2698), S8482, S8483 [20JY]

Office of the Chief Actuary: provide direct congressional access (S. 2076), S1292 [12FE]

Reports

Medicare Trust Fund Reimbursement Act: Anthony H. Gamboa, GAO, S6089-S6093 [21MY]

Reports filed

Nomination of Mark B. McClellan To Be Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator: Committee on Finance (Senate), S2440 [9MR]

Texts of

S. 2076, Congressional Access to the CMS Chief Actuary Act, S1292 [12FE]

S. 2473, Medicare Trust Fund Reimbursement Act, S6089 [21MY]