Ways & Means To Write To CMS Urging More Medicare Deregulation, Says Talks Ongoing

The House Ways & Means Committee plans to send four letters to CMS highlighting ways to relieve administrative burden for hospitals, post-acute care providers, physicians and rural providers as part of its Medicare red tape relief project, but a new report from the committee includes no concrete plans for legislation despite Chair Peter Roskam's (R-IL) call earlier this year for legislative action this summer. Ways & Means says it will “continue to explore common-sense solutions based on feed back from...