Medicare Doctor Pay, 340B Legislation, PBM Bills in Limbo as Congress Takes Off

Members of Congress headed home for the summer last weekend, leaving the healthcare community in an all too familiar position: Wondering how key priorities will turn out after lawmakers failed to address them in the first part of the year. At the top of the list is money, with billions of dollars in cuts to physician pay and safety net hospitals funding set to begin in January, as well as appropriations for expiring programs such as community health centers. Congress has not completed its work on bills that would impose restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers, mandate transparency in multiple realms of healthcare, enact site-neutral payments for certain outpatient services, regulate artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, overhaul the 340B drug discount program, and extend COVID-19 pandemic-era authorizations for telehealth and hospital-at-home care.

The post Medicare Doctor Pay, 340B Legislation, PBM Bills in Limbo as Congress Takes Off appeared first on Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health.

Recommend0 recommendationsPublished in My Healthy Pennsylvania, Rural Health PA

Related Articles

As Social Need Screening Advances, Transportation Remains an Afterthought

Some big changes in 2022 and 2023 have set up the healthcare sector to advance screening for non-medical social needs in 2024 and beyond. This is great news as we work to address social determinants of health (SDoH), improve health outcomes, and reduce health disparities. But one key social need – transportation – isn’t getting …
The post As Social Need Screening Advances, Transportation Remains an Afterthought appeared first on Salud America.