By Jon Reid Top Stories President Donald Trump is reportedly considering White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, former Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), who was House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs chairman during his time in Congress, and Ascension CEO Anthony Tersigni as potential nominees to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. Trump’s first pick to lead […]
By Jon Reid Top Stories The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed more than $1 billion in pay increases for post-acute care providers next year, as well as various policy changes to the payment rules for skilled nursing facilities, hospices, inpatient psychiatric facilities and inpatient rehab facilities. The proposal would give skilled nursing facilities an […]
By Jon Reid Week in Review Government White House physician Ronny Jackson withdrew his name from consideration to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs amid allegations of prior misconduct, including drinking while on duty, overprescribing medications and overseeing a hostile work environment. Jackson denied the allegations. Jackson’s resignation came after the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs postponed […]
By Jon Reid Top Stories The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released preliminary Medicare Advantage encounter data from 2015, and it plans to release Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program data in 2019, Administrator Seema Verma announced in a speech at Health Datapalooza. Verma said it is the first time the CMS has […]
By Jon Reid Top Stories White House physician Ronny Jackson withdrew his name from consideration to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs amid allegations of prior misconduct, including crashing a government vehicle while drunk, having a “pattern” of handing out sleeping pills and wakefulness-promoting medication without triaging patient history, writing himself prescriptions and overseeing a […]
By Jon Reid Top Stories Under newly proposed changes to Medicare payment rules, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to increase price transparency at hospitals by compelling them to publish their standard prices online in a machine-readable form to make it easier for insurers and other organizations to analyze them. CMS is also […]
By Jon Reid Top Stories The Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs’ postponed a confirmation hearing for Dr. Ronny Jackson, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, after top Republicans and Democrats raised concerns about the White House physician’s qualifications to run the federal bureaucracy and his management of the White House […]
By Jon Reid Top Stories The Trump administration said it plans to roll back an Obama-era rule that protects transgender people from discrimination by doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies. Advocates say the change could undermine recent gains that transgender people have seen in access to medical care as insurers would be allowed to once […]
By Jon Reid Week in Review Government Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar was discharged after his second hospitalization for treatment of diverticulitis, an infection of pouches in the colon that can be painful. Health and Human Services spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley said in a statement Friday evening that Azar’s doctors have advised him to rest […]
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