CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES
Amendments
Medicare: extend the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program (S. 607), S136, S138 [20JA]
Articles and editorials
Pharma Can Buy Time. I Can’t, E795 [25MY]
Bills and resolutions
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation: test efficacy of providing caregiver support services to delay or reduce use of institutionalized care for Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia (see S. 3137), S4915 [7JY] (see H.R. 5681), H4548 [7JY]
Insurance: require adequate verification procedures to ensure that advance payments under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are made only for enrollees who have paid their premiums (see H.R. 6011), H5435 [13SE]
Medicare: extend enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals (see S. 3129), S4828 [6JY] (see H.R. 5164), H2154 [3MY] (see H.R. 5613), H4191 [1JY]
——— prohibit further action on proposed rule on testing of part B prescription drug models (see H.R. 5122), H2148 [29AP]
Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings: delay release (see H.R. 5927), H5039 [25JY] (see H.R. 6088), H5710 [20SE]
Rural areas: improve quality of rural health care, promote rural-based payment reforms, and increase rural representation on Medicare and Medicaid payment commissions (see S. 3191), S5079 [13JY]
Small business: establish Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program grants to pursue commercialization of new drugs and medical devices (see S. 3457), S6227 [28SE]
Questions and answers
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act risk corridor program payments, H5957 [27SE]
Remarks in House
Dept. of HHS: establish a National Diabetes Clinical Care Commission (H.R. 1192), H6113–H6115 [14NO], E765 [23MY], E1471 [15NO]
Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: adjust in order to avoid disproportionate penalties for hospitals treating vulnerable populations, H3474 [7JN], H7003 [30NO]
Medicare: extend enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals, H7003 [30NO]
——— extend enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals (H.R. 5613), H5681, H5682 [20SE]
——— extend the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program, H3474 [7JN]
——— prohibit further action on proposed rule on testing of part B prescription drug models, H5105 [7SE]
Medicare Part B Demonstration Project proposal: support, E795 [25MY]
New Mexico: call for Federal investigation into behavioral health care system crisis, H1347, H1348 [15MR]
Remarks in Senate
Committee on Finance (Senate): hearing on challenges facing the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan program, S153 [21JA]
Government contracts: improve accounting of contract progress, costs, finalization, and closeouts, S858 [11FE]
Insurance: address approval of fraudulent applications for subsidies through healthcare.gov and recoup all improperly paid subsidies, S1038 [25FE]
——— address fraudulent claims, S4879 [7JY], S5697–S5699 [14SE]
Medicare: extend the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program (S. 607), S138 [20JA]
Wills Eye Hospital: classification as ambulatory surgery center instead of hospital, S5975 [22SE], S6260 [29SE]
Reports filed
Medicare Enforcement Instruction on Supervision Requirements for Outpatient Therapeutic Services in Critical Access and Small Rural Hospitals Extension: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 5613) (H. Rept. 114–696), H5030 [21JY]
National Clinical Care Commission Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 1192) (H. Rept. 114–801), H6177 [14NO]
Texts of
H.R. 1192, National Clinical Care Commission Act, H6113 [14NO]
H.R. 5613, Continuing Access to Hospitals (CAH) Act, H5681 [20SE]
S. 607, Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Extension Act, S138 [20JA]