CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES

Bills and resolutions

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation: abolish (see H.R. 8293), H2923 [15AP]

——— require to test model implementing most-favored-nation drug pricing (see H.R. 7837), H2470 [5MR]

——— test model to reduce chronic diseases by using accountable produce as medicine (see H.R. 8355), H2959 [16AP]

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]

Government regulations: disapprove rule entitled ‘‘Medicare Program; Implementation of Prior Authorization for Select Services for the Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction (WISeR) Model’’ (see S.J. Res. 192), S2373 [19MY] (see H.J. Res. 187), H3627 [19MY]

——— update regulation of laboratory developed tests under Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) program (see H.R. 8890), H3626 [19MY]

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]

——— extend rural community hospital demonstration program (see S. 4460), S2170 [30AP]

Medicare: codify low-wage index hospital policy (see S. 4233), S1668 [26MR] (see H.R. 8109), H2776 [26MR]

——— 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]

Decisions 

Applicability of Congressional Review Act to Dept. of HHS and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Notice Implementing Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction (WISeR) Model: Edda Emmanuelli Perez, GAO, S2299–S2302 [14MY]

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

Oz, Mehmet: characterization of remarks relative to family size, H3378 [12MY]

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

——— tribute, H2839 [14AP]

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], S2293 [14MY]