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Senate Health Draft Offers Three Options To Address Surprise Billing

The Senate health committee’s bipartisan legislative proposal would hold patients harmless for surprise bills and lays out three possible reimbursement options for those situations: benchmark rates that are similar to the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s solution; an “in-network guarantee” that is supported by employers; and an arbitration option, which hospitals and providers have backed.

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New Bipartisan House Bill Uses Arbitration To Curb Surprise Billing

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers, led by emergency room physician Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA), unveiled Thursday (May 23) an outline of legislation that would hold patients harmless from surprise bills and allow providers and issuers to resolve payment disputes through arbitration.

Kentucky Hospital Industry Tells Court To Uphold Work Requirements

The Kentucky Hospital Association is siding with Kentucky and CMS in the lawsuit challenging the state’s proposed Medicaid work requirements--a rare example of the hospital industry endorsing work requirements as a condition for maintaining health coverage.

House Approps Subcommittee Sends FDA Funding Bill To Full Committee

The House Appropriations agriculture subcommittee on Thursday (May 23) voted to send a fiscal 2020 funding bill that would give FDA a $184 million increase over its fiscal 2019 levels to the full committee.

FDA Pushes Back Nonprescription Proposed Rule To December

FDA has once again officially delayed its planned release of a highly anticipated nonprescription drug proposed rule, although an FDA official said this week the agency hopes to get the rule out as soon as possible.

Schatz, Durbin: States Could Lose Funding Under McConnell Tobacco Bill

The Democratic sponsors of bipartisan Tobacco to 21 legislation in the Senate are urging Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to sign on as a co-sponsor rather than move forward with his recently introduced bill that also would raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco from 18 to 21.

Lawyers: FDA RWE Guide Is A Big First Step, But Challenges Remain

A drug industry lawyer and a drug regulation expert applauded a recent FDA draft guidance on the use of real-world evidence (RWE) and real-world data (RWD) in drug and biologics applications as a major step forward, but said questions remain related to data quality and informed consent.

FDA To Propose Rules For Tobacco, Compounding, INDs, Right To Try

FDA expects to propose a number of significant new rules over the next year that will address tobacco product applications, warnings for cigarette packages and advertisements, annual reporting requirements for investigational new drugs, and requirements for drug products that are deemed difficult to compound.

Verma Says CMS Taking Care To Get CAR-T Coverage Decision Right

CMS Administrator Seema Verma on Wednesday (May 22) said the agency is taking its time with a national Medicare coverage policy for new expensive hospital-administered cancer drugs, which was due to be published May 17 but was delayed, because the policy will affect coverage of drugs other than the two chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies already on the market.

Finance Considers Reworking Part D Catastrophic To Control Rx Prices

Senate Finance Committee Chair Chuck Grassley said Wednesday (May 17) that committee members are considering a rework of financial liability in the catastrophic phase of Medicare Part D to help curb rising drug prices.

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