CMS: New National Quality Strategy Will Start This Summer

CMS announced a new strategy for quality improvement that officials say could help address some of the concerns illuminated during the pandemic -- including inequitable care, inaccessibility issues and safety concerns -- and the agency plans to begin implementing the new strategy as soon as this summer. The National Quality Strategy consists of eight major goals that are each designed to address one of the major quality concerns CMS has identified, in part because of the pandemic, CMS officials said...
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Experts Seek Reforms Despite Rosier Medicare Trust Fund Report; Congress Considers FDA User Fee, Mental Health Bills

Health care experts and lawmakers are calling for reforms to the Medicare Part A trust fund despite last week’s trustees report showing the fund has an additional two years before it becomes insolvent, and the House and Senate are advancing bills that would reauthorize FDA’s user-fee programs and increase access to mental health and substance use disorder treatments. Medicare trustees pushed back the trust fund’s insolvency date from 2026 -- when trustees had for years projected the trust fund would...
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Nurses’ Union Says Clinic Shooting Shows Need For OSHA Violence Standard

National Nurses United (NNU) is pointing to the June 1 shootings of three employees and a patient’s spouse at a Tulsa clinic as further proof of the need for an OSHA workplace violence standard, and is urging the Senate to advance a bill that would mandate a final rule in just a year, cutting short what supporters say is the agency’s unacceptably long rulemaking process. “Yet another tragic mass shooting -- this time at a Tulsa, Okla., hospital -- demonstrates...
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Senate Health Committee Will Mark Up User Fees This Week As Congress Returns From Recess

The Senate health committee will mark up FDA user fee legislation Wednesday (June 8), and the House will vote on its user fee bill, as lawmakers return from recess to a busy schedule that for now does not seem to include much on budget reconciliation and drug pricing, despite a debunked rumor that circulated over the weekend that a reconciliation deal was nigh. The Senate’s version of the user fee bill could be the target of new drug/pricing measures. Sen...
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GAO: Role of Short-Term Plans During Pandemic Unclear

The Government Accountability Office says in a new report that lack of data stymied its effort to analyze the role that short-term, limited-duration health plans played for consumers who lost employer coverage during the pandemic. GAO pinpoints the type of data that stakeholders say would be helpful for gauging how consumers use short-term plans, including information on enrollment, benefits and marketing practices. The report also underscores disagreements among policy researchers, state officials and other stakeholders on the value of the...
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Senate Finance Bill Gives National Academy Key Role In Audio-Only Tele-Mental Health

The Senate Finance Committee would give the National Academy of Medicine a key role in informing future policy on audio-only appointments to treat behavioral health disorders if the committee’s tele-mental health care draft bill becomes law. CMS would be required to consider the findings from an NAM report when making changes to audio-only coverage and safeguards, according to audio-only services provision of the discussion draft. Telehealth stakeholders say CMS already has the authority to regularly review data and amend policy...
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