Health Care Policy Update – Weekly Wrap-up and What’s Ahead

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 What’s Ahead: This Week Hearings & Markups – Wednesday, August 29 Senate HELP Committee, “FDA Oversight: Leveraging Cutting-Edge Science and Protecting Public Health.” Notable Policy Events – Wednesday, August 29 – Thursday, August 30 Department of Veterans Affairs, “VHA Innovation: Experience (I:E).” Additional information: http://bit.ly/2od5EBv   Weekly Wrap-Up: Notable Health Care Developments From Last Week… Read more »

Health Care Policy Update – Weekly Wrap-up and What’s Ahead

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 What’s Ahead: This Week Hearings/Markups – Tuesday, January 30 Senate HELP Committee, Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security, “Roundtable on Small Business Health Plans.” House Energy & Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Health, “Exampling Implementation of the Compounding Quality Act.” House Committee on Veterans Affairs, “Appeals Reform: Will VA’s Implementation Effectively Serve Veterans?”  Notable Policy Events… Read more »

Health Care Policy Update – Weekly Wrap-Up and What’s Ahead

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What’s Ahead: This Week Notable Policy Events – Tuesday, September 19 Roll Call, “Tackling Mental Health Through Innovation.” Additional information: http://bit.ly/2xcUh1x Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), “Addressing America’s Opioid Problem: The Need for Evidence-Based Strategies.” Additional information: http://bit.ly/2xdEO1h Center for Strategic & International Studies, “Decades of the Global War on Drugs, Lessons Learned, and America’s Opioid… Read more »

Health Care Policy Update – Weekly Wrap-Up and What’s Ahead

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 What’s Ahead: This Week Hearings/Markups – Tuesday, August 1 Senate HELP Committee, “HHS Nomination Hearing.” Thursday, August 3 Senate Finance Committee, “Hearing to Consider the Nominations of Gilbert B. Kaplan, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, United States Department of Commerce, and Matthew Bassett, of Tennessee, to be… Read more »

Both Sides of the Aisle Agree – Telemedicine is the Future | The Hill Op-ed

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Last Thursday, in the midst of the intense debate about the future of ObamaCare, Congress held yet another hearing extoling the virtues of telehealth and remote patient monitoring, and lamenting the barriers in Medicare that are preventing seniors from accessing these new technologies in the same way as patients in the commercial market. The hearing… Read more »