CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES

Bills and resolutions

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation: require to test model implementing most-favored-nation drug pricing (see H.R. 7837), H2470 [5MR]

Dept. of HHS: provide funding for Quality Improvement Organizations to work with lower-resourced providers to improve preparedness and performance, improve Medicare services, and ensure continuity of services during disasters (see H.R. 7486), H2185 [11FE]

Health care facilities: establish total nurse staffing hours per resident day and require 24-hour use of registered professional nurses in nursing homes (see S. 3886), S609 [12FE]

Medicare: ensure continued designation of certain critical access hospitals (see H.R. 7727), H2332 [26FE]

——— limit geographic reclassification of certain hospitals (see H.R. 7409), H2041 [5FE]

Motions

Government regulations: disapprove rule entitled ‘‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability’’ (S.J. Res. 84), S147 [13JA]

Remarks in House

Rural Health Transformation Program: funding, H229 [8JA]

Remarks in Senate

Dept. of HHS: implement measures to prevent improper payments to managed care organizations for deceased Medicaid enrollees, S185 [14JA]

Government regulations: disapprove rule entitled ‘‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability’’ (S.J. Res. 84), S143, S146 [13JA]

——— disapprove rule entitled ‘‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability’’ (S.J. Res. 84), motion to proceed, S147–S152 [13JA]

Iowa: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Rural Health Transformation Fund grant recipient, S19 [6JA]

Rural Health Transformation Program: funding, S21 [6JA], S63 [7JA]