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Health Industry Washington Watch
House Approves Repeal of ACA “1099” Tax Reporting Provision
On March 3, 2011, the House of Representatives approved H.R. 4, the Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act of 2011. H.R. 4 would repeal an ACA provision that requires businesses to…
Health Industry Washington Watch
OIG Identifies Top HHS Management Challenges, Including ACA Implementation
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued its annual report on top HHS management and performance challenges. One of the key areas identified by the OIG is incorporating program…
Health Industry Washington Watch
ACA CO-OP Board to Meet March 14
HHS has announced a March 14, 2011 public meeting of the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) Advisory Board. The ACA charges the Board with advising the Secretary how to…
Health Industry Washington Watch
CMS Final Rule Expands Medicare/Medicaid/CHIP Provider and Supplier Screening Requirements Under Affordable Care Act Authority
On February 2, 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule with comment period (Final Rule) implementing provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that…
Health Industry Washington Watch
Senate Rejects ACA Repeal, Congress Addresses “1099” Reporting
On February 2, 2011, Senate opponents of the ACA failed by a 47 to 51 vote to clear a procedural hurdle that would have allowed a vote on repeal of…
Health Industry Washington Watch
Reprocessing Medicare Claims Affected by ACA/2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Changes
CMS recently provided instructions to Medicare providers affected by retroactive provisions of the ACA and corrections to the 2010 Medicare physician fee schedule. Contractors will begin reprocessing a large volume of…
Health Industry Washington Watch
CMS Guidance on Laboratory Demonstration for Certain Complex Diagnostic Tests
On January 28, 2011, CMS issued instructions on implementation of the ACA’s Laboratory Demonstration for Certain Complex Diagnostic Tests. The voluntary demonstration will establish a separate payment method for certain lab…
Health Industry Washington Watch
IOM Work on Development of ACA Essential Health Benefits Package
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has begun work on advising the HHS Secretary on how to define EHBs for purposes of the ACA insurance package provisions. The IOM Board on Health…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Partisan Constitutional Rulings and the Fate of the Health Care Law
NY Times: Doing the Judicial Math on Health Care, by Adam Liptak:WASHINGTON — Put away your copy of the Constitution. Take out your calculator. It’s time for some judicial arithmetic.There…
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The Constitutional Validity of Health Care Waivers
Columbia's Philip Hamburger has an article in NRO that argues that the Health Care waivers that HHS Secretary Sebelius has been handing out to favored suppplicants violates an implicit constitutional…