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CMS Final Rule Closes Medicaid Loophole
Read moreThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a Medicaid rule, last week, which closes an especially egregious loophole that allowed...
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Upcoming Congressional Fiscal Policy Deadlines
Read moreUpdated 2/4/26: On February 3, the President signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act to reopen agencies that saw a funding lapse on...
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SDPs Run Amuck - The Case of Medical Debt Forgiveness as a Pretext for High Payments
Read moreMedicaid provides health insurance to nearly 71 million people, and will cost the federal government over $650 billion this year – nearly double what...
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What's In the One Big Beautiful Bill Act?
Read moreNote: This blog was updated on 8/4/25 to reflect CBO's newly-released estimates of the permanent cost of certain expiring tax provisions in OBBBA. The...
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2025 Reconciliation Resources
Read moreThe 119th Congress is expected to use the reconciliation process to pass legislation with a significant fiscal impact, such as extending the expiring...
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CMS Rule Would Close Medicaid Loophole
Read moreThe Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed a rule to limit some of the most egregious provider taxes used by states to...
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Comments on Proposed Rule to Close a Medicaid Financing Loophole
Read moreOn July 11, 2025 the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein and Director of...
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Comparing the Senate and House OBBBAs
Read moreThe Senate has passed its version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 reconciliation bill – the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). The table below is a...
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Breaking Down the One Big Beautiful Bill
Read moreNote: (06/23/2025) Some categorizations and numbers in the Ways and Means' section of the table below have been updated to more accurately reflect the...
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Energy & Commerce Draft Would Help Limit Medicaid Gaming
Read moreThe House Energy & Commerce (E&C) Committee recently released its proposed reconciliation legislation, which is expected to save over $900 billion...
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Energy & Commerce Has Plenty of Options
Read moreUnder the House's reconciliation instructions, the Energy & Commerce Committee is tasked with identifying at least $880 billion of net deficit...
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Event Recap: Third Annual Health Solutions Summit
Read moreOn April 3 rd, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted its Third Annual Health Solutions Summit at the Royal Sonesta, Capitol Hill. The...