Voters choose the next Congress on Nov. 3, a federal judge struck down the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ medical frailty definition two months before Medicaid work requirements begin, and the Labor Department finalized a rule requiring pharmacy benefit managers to disclose how they are paid.
HHS released a national kidney care plan that targets dialysis market concentration, doctors and hospitals told FDA that developers should answer for generative AI device safety, and Senate Democrats warned that Medicaid eligibility systems are not ready for January work requirements.
CMS proposed new guardrails for pharmacy benefit managers and Medicare Advantage directories, the administration tightened Affordable Care Act subsidies, and a bipartisan House bill would delay the 340B rebate pilot for two years.
Cardiologists welcomed CMS’s new TAVR coverage rules while watching for self-referral, hospitals sued to stop the 340B rebate pilot, and CMS named the 2,217 hospitals entering mandatory joint replacement payment in 2028.
FDA approved Edwards’ Autus valve, the first heart valve built to grow with a child. President Trump announced $90 payments to Medicare enrollees a month before the midterms, and CMS’s 2027 data show Medicare Advantage insurers cutting plans and benefits.
CMS canceled marketplace coverage for more than 760,000 people and froze new broker registrations, the White House dropped its plan for political review of NIH grants, and FDA advisers backed the first multicancer blood test.
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