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Healthcare Policy: COVID-Relief Legislation & More

Friday, March 12, 2021
McDermott+Consulting is pleased to provide the McDermottPlus Check-Up, your regular update on health care policy from Washington, DC.
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Congress
Biden Signed American Rescue Plan
The American Rescue Plan of 2021 (ARP) largely follows President Biden’s initial $1.9 trillion proposal. The ARP extends unemployment insurance benefits and provides $1,400 stimulus payments to qualifying Americans. It also makes several important health policy changes, including providing funding for vaccine distribution and COVID-19 testing, making policy adjustments to Medicaid, facilitating insurance coverage and providing another $8.5 billion through a Provider Relief Fund look-alike mechanism to specifically support rural providers. The final bill also makes two narrowly focused Medicare payment changes. The version that was signed into law ultimately did not include a federal minimum wage increase, or a number of other financi ....

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House Budget Committee COVID-19 Relief Package Consideration & more Health News

Friday, February 19, 2021
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The House Budget Committee meets today to combine provisions approved by other House committees last week into a final coronavirus (COVID-19) relief package for consideration by the full House of Representatives. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) took a first step toward reversing Medicaid work requirements. President Joe Biden is expected to name Chiquita Brooks-LaSure as his nominee for CMS Administrator, and named Elizabeth Fowler as his Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).
Congress
House Advances COVID-19 Relief Legislation. Last week, House committees approved pieces of the $1.9 trillion dollar COVID-19 relief package that congressional Democrats are preparing to pass through a budget reconciliation process. Although Republicans introduced numerous amendments throughout the committee consideration phase, the proposals advanced along party lines without an ....

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Healthcare Law: Biden's COVID-19 Plan EOs

Monday, January 25, 2021
Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States and issued a series of executive orders (EOs) in his first days in office. The new Administration also released a national coronavirus (COVID-19) response plan along with a series of staff appointments within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In this document, we review the likely healthcare policy reforms and actions expected from the Biden Administration in its first 100 days.
Administration
Biden Issued a Series of Executive Orders on His First Days as President.
As anticipated, President Joe Biden began his term by quickly issuing EOs, including a few relevant to healthcare stakeholders, which reverse certain Trump Administration policies and begin implementing a plan to address the COVID-19 pandemic. The EOs include policies to create a 100-day nation-wide mask mandate on federal property and inter-state travel (including on airplanes a ....

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