News/Issues
Advocacy news
- CMS releases final Medicare payment rules for hospital outpatient and physician services (11/1/11)
- Premier urges deficit panel to strengthen and accelerate healthcare delivery system, supply chain and liability reforms (10/24/11)
- Premier comments on insurance exchanges proposal (10/24/11)
- CMS makes sweeping changes to accountable care organizations program in final rule (10/20/11)
- House and Senate committees offer healthcare recommendations to “Super Committee” (10/14/11)
- Premier joins hospitals, healthcare groups in calling on super committee to reject hospital cuts (10/14/11)
- House Oversight Committee lead Democrat launches investigation into “gray market” sales of drugs in short supply (10/14/11)
- MedPAC approves four SGR reform recommendations, but fails to vote on draft "offset" list (10/14/11)
- Lawmakers push CMS to release rule for industry payments sunshine law (10/14/11)
- Stop-gap measure keeps government funded; proposed appropriations bill would void healthcare reform funding (9/30/11)
- Lawmakers and stakeholders petition deficit reduction panel (9/30/11)
- Premier testifies at House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on drug shortages (9/30/11)
- Patient safety coalition urges OMB to release proposed rule on unique device identification (9/30/11)
- Premier presses IRS for flexibility for nonprofit hospitals in complying with new community needs assessment (9/30/11)
- CMS issues final rule on Medicaid RACs (9/30/11)
- House passes legislation to fund graduate medical education at children’s (9/30/11)
- MedPAC’s offers offsets for preliminary SGR fix proposal (9/30/11)
- Deficit control "super committee" begins deliberations (9/9/11)
- Senate HELP Committee votes to reauthorize children's GME (9/9/11)
- Senator Bennet calls for federal drug pedigrees, citing Premier price gouging analysis (9/9/11)
- Premier comments on proposed outpatient payment rule (9/9/11)
- CMS Innovation Center announces bundled payment initiative (9/9/11)
- Premier comments on proposed outpatient payment rule (8/26/11)
- CMS Innovation Center announces bundled payment initiative (8/23/11)
- Congressional leaders appoint members to powerful deficit reduction committee after passage of Budget Control Act (8/12/11)
- Premier calls for significant changes to HHS' accounting for disclosures proposal (8/12/11)
- CMS releases FY 2012 hospital inpatient PPS final rule (8/12/11)
- CMS issues final payment rules for post-acute care sites (8/12/11)
- CMS releases Physician Group Practice Demonstration results (8/12/11)
- CMS issues proposed rule addressing Medicaid expansion mandated in healthcare reform (8/12/11)
- Budget update (7/23/11)
- Lawmakers urge CMS to modify IPPS coding offset proposal (7/23/11)
- House panel advances Children’s Graduate Medical Education funding (7/23/11)
- CMS walks through details of hospital value-based purchasing program (7/23/11)
- House subcommittee examines Medicare fraud, zeroes in on RACs (7/23/11)
- Health spending proposals remain in deficit plan talks, but outcome is uncertain (7/15/11)
- Hospital community continues to put pressure on Congress to reject hospital cuts (7/15/11)
- Attacks against IPAB cross party lines (7/15/11)
- Premier urges DOJ to modify quotas to address drug shortages (7/15/11)
- Multi-campus EHR incentive payment bill introduced (7/15/11)
- Democratic House members defend GME against cuts (7/15/11)
- HHS issues proposed rules implementing state insurance exchanges (7/15/11)
- HHS announces three funding initiatives to care for dual eligibles (7/15/11)
- IRS issues guidance on community health needs assessment requirements (7/15/11)
- CMS releases proposed Medicare payment rules for hospital outpatient, ASCs, physician services and home health (7/15/11)