Medicare & Medicaid
Experts say there's room to "skinny up" the requirements in some areas by changing regulations that federal officials wrote to implement the law.
The funds will provide training for clinicians in thousands of individual or small group practices of 15 clinicians or fewer.
Practice submitted Medicare claims for the drugs, violating the False Claims Act, DOJ says.
The Congressional Budget Office has said repealing the mandate would increase insurance premiums by roughly 20 percent.
The potential CMS administrator, in her confirmation hearing, largely ducked questions about specific ideas for Medicare and Medicaid management.
The rule proposes to shorten the 2018 open enrollment period from Nov. 1 to Dec.15 to align the marketplaces with the employee and Medicare insurance markets.
Expansion states face fiscal and policy issues, while non-expansion states could be forced to increase charity funding and support high-risk insurance pools.
Whereas most respondents expect to participate in MACRA, in fact, only 35 percent said they currently have a strategy for doing so.
Lawsuit filed by former patient alleged physician Paul Tartell knowingly billed for procedures more intrusive and expensive than those that were actually performed.
Party-line vote means the Georgia congressman will now be instrumental in repealing the Affordable Care Act.