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Lower Costs, More Transparency Act Passes House
Read moreThe House of Representatives passed the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act yesterday with a large bipartisan majority. Within the legislation is an... -
Event Recap: Second Annual Health Solutions Summit
Read moreOn November 8th, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted its second annual Health Solutions Summit in partnership with the Healthcare... -
House Site-Neutral Policy Should Save More
Read moreHouse leadership recently introduced the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act, that unifies multiple legislative proposals from the Energy and Commerce... -
NDAA Includes $150 Billion Deficit-Increasing Program
Read moreThe Senate-passed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 (NDAA) would increase the deficit by $153 billion over a decade... -
Medicaid Provider Taxes Inflate Federal Matching Funds
Read moreThis paper is part of a series on Medicaid financing. Other papers in the series discuss an overview of state financing schemes and supplemental... -
More Deficit-Increasing Tax Cuts from the Ways & Means Committee
Read moreTomorrow, the House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to mark up two bills to expand Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). The bills will reduce revenue... -
Site-Neutral Legislative Proposals Gaining Traction
Read moreOne of the best ways to reduce health care costs would be to move towards “ site-neutral” payments and away from the current system’s inefficient... -
Restoring Trust Fund Solvency Would Reduce Long-Term Debt Growth
Read moreRestoring solvency to the major trust funds would reduce one-half to four-fifths of the projected debt-to-GDP growth over the next three decades. The... -
New Evidence Suggests Even Larger Medicare Advantage Overpayments
Read moreUpdate 2/2/24: We have updated our estimate for MA overpayments due to new research into coding intensity and favorable selection from MedPAC . We... -
Time to Fix Medicaid Financing Schemes
Read moreThis paper is part of a series on Medicaid financing. Other papers in the series discuss provider taxes and supplemental payments . Medicaid is... -
Congress is Trying to Have it Both Ways with Telehealth
Read more6/26/23 Update: The Congressional Budget Office released a cost estimate of the legislation allowing telehealth to be covered pre-deductible in HDHPs... -
Key Takeaways from the Site-based Invoicing and Transparency Enhancement (SITE) Act
Read moreThis week Senators Mike Braun (R-IN), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and John Kennedy (R-LA) introduced the Site-based Invoicing and Transparency Enhancement...