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Medicare Team Now Complete – Time to Improve the Program for Beneficiaries

This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Dr. Meena Seshamani’s appointment as Deputy Administrator and Director of Center for Medicare.  Dr. Seshamani joins CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, and Health & … [Read more...] about Medicare Team Now Complete – Time to Improve the Program for Beneficiaries

Issue Brief – May 2021 – Health Care Reform, Medicare Fiscal Solvency & Other Issues

LITIGATION UPDATE Affordable Care Act Case California v. Texas is the lawsuit brought by several states that seeks to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA). In 2019, a divided panel of the Fifth Circuit ruled that the ACA’s … [Read more...] about Issue Brief – May 2021 – Health Care Reform, Medicare Fiscal Solvency & Other Issues

Issue Brief – March 2021 – Nursing Homes & COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Other Issues

I. NURSING FACILITY UPDATES Report: Geography Is Not Destiny: Protecting Nursing Home Residents from the Next Pandemic   On February 18, 2021, the Center for Medicare Advocacy released a new report – Geography Is Not Destiny: Protecting … [Read more...] about Issue Brief – March 2021 – Nursing Homes & COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Other Issues

Issue Brief – January 2021 – Medicare Provisions In the COVID Relief & Omnibus Package, and Other Issues

I. COVID RELIEF & OMNIBUS PACKAGE – OVERVIEW OF MEDICARE PROVISIONS   On December 21, 2020, Congress passed a COVID relief package as part of a larger omnibus spending package called the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (H.R. 133), signed … [Read more...] about Issue Brief – January 2021 – Medicare Provisions In the COVID Relief & Omnibus Package, and Other Issues