The 21st Century Cures Act, an ambitious bipartisan bill primarily designed to advance medical science and accelerate the introduction of innovative therapeutics to market, cleared the Senate Wednesday.
The bill is a grab bag for industries that spent plenty of money lobbying to make sure it happened that way.
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
Other than major appropriations bills, a transportation spending bill and an energy infrastructure funding bill, the 21st Century Cures Act garnered more lobbying activity than any of the more than 11,000 bills proposed in the 114th Congress.
Topping the list of ACA provisions likely to survive under Trump is the requirement that employers cover workers’ children up to the age of 26, analysts said.
Both sides in the Obamacare debate have valid points. They also are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-California) said internal Olympus emails about that decision were “incredibly disturbing” and the company officials involved should face questions at a congressional hearing.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
The bill, known as the ESRD Choice Act (H.R. 5?659), would allow enrollment in the Medicare managed care plans to ESRD patients undergoing dialysis treatment.
Supporters of the Patient Access to Durable Medical Equipment Act of 2016 said the proposed legislation would ensure access to vital healthcare technology, particularly in smaller, isolated markets. It also would protect their profits.
With the future of the federal electronic health records incentive program now up in the air, a bill that addresses major complaints about Meaningful Use seems to be on the fast track to passage.
The legislation would permit physicians, PAs and NPs to write prescriptions for remote patients, as long as they have established a provider-patient relationship. It would exclude controlled substances and abortion drugs.
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
The proposed CONNECT for Health Act has the support of more than 50 organizations, including the American Medical Association, AARP, Kaiser Permanente and health IT vendors Cerner and American Well.
Patient visits to ambulatory surgery centers would be exempt from Meaningful Use reporting — and related Medicare penalties — for the physicians and other "elgibile professionals" who see them starting next year, under legislation that unanimously passed the Senate this week.
Rep. Renee Elmers (R-N.C.) on Thursday introduced legislation that would prevent the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from even writing the final Stage 3 Meaningful Use rules until at least 2017. It also would permanently shorten the annual attestation period to 90 days, rather than the full year, and institute a "linear scale" next year for compliance to replace the current all-or-nothing nature of the EHR incentive program.
In a new rule, Minnesota has excluded solo practitioners from the EHR mandate
Mississippi’s two senators, Roger Wicker and Thad Cochran, both Republicans, will reintroduce legislation to extend Medicare coverage for telehealth services in medically underserved areas. Wicker, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet, announced plans during a hearing Tuesday to bring up the Telehealth Advancement Act in the new Congress. […]