Policy Update – Week of August 19, 2024
Courtney Savage
August 23, 2024
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This week: While Dem’s are away partying, the rest of DC… thinks a lot about the wisdom in a siesta-centric workday.
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Policy Update – Week of August 12, 2024
Courtney Savage
August 16, 2024
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This week: The first negotiated prescription drug prices are here. Did anyone win? Who lost?
Policy Update – Week of August 5, 2024
Courtney Savage
August 9, 2024
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This week: TCET is finally here… and Congress is finally not!
Policy Update – Week of July 29, 2024
Courtney Savage
August 2, 2024
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IPPS Final Rule published and seniors wait to see the product of the first Medicare drug price negotiations.
Regulatory Update – Week of July 22, 2024
Courtney Savage
July 27, 2024
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This week – an Issue Brief on Global Surgical Payments to answer all your burning questions.
Issue Brief: Medicare Global Surgical Payments
Courtney Savage
July 26, 2024
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This issue brief addresses the topic of global payments for surgeons under the Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS): what they are, how they work (or don’t work) and why CMS seems so intent on doing away with them.
Regulatory Update – Week of July 15, 2024
Courtney Savage
July 19, 2024
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This week, Congress is out but everyone else seems to be in!
Regulatory Update – Week of July 8, 2024
Courtney Savage
July 12, 2024
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The payment rules are here!
They’re Here!
Courtney Savage
July 12, 2024
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The Fourth of July can be counted on for two things: fireworks, and Medicare payment rules, the defining documents that sort DC health policy folk into two camps. On one side, there are the Hill staffers and lobbyists who are trying to strategically plot a path through the appropriations quagmire to get to August recess. Then there are the regulatory staff whose year has just started.
Regulatory Update – Week of June 24, 2024
Courtney Savage
June 28, 2024
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This week: Becerra, Chevron, Debates, and Devices (and blood test for cancer, and obesity drug coverage)… Oh My!
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