Cures Compromise Emerges With Medicare Riders; REMS Offset Replaced By Prevention Fund, Oil Reserves

Compromise 21st Century Cures legislation is emerging that might also include measures on hospital site-neutral pay, mental health, regenerative medicine, and possibly House Ways & Means priorities such as Medicare Advantage dialysis payment reform, lobbyists tracking the negotiations tell Inside Health Policy . Lawmakers have decided to scrap a controversial drug industry offset in favor of paying for the bill with the ACA's Prevention and Public Health Fund and strategic oil reserves, and the National Institutes of Health could receive...