On Friday, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) joined patients and providers at the Together Center to discuss the impact of the Medicaid cuts in Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill, many of which are set to take full effect early next year and will kick over 350,000 Washingtonians off their Apple Health coverage.
The Big Ugly Bill slashed… Read more »
The House Ways and Means Committee cleared bipartisan legislation on Wednesday to reduce insurance care denials in privately run Medicare Advantage plans, and boost price transparency.
The panel advanced seven health bills to the full House floor. Chief among them was the Improving Seniors Timely Access to Care Act, which introduces several reforms to prior authorization, which requires… Read more »
"I still have hope," said Peggy Tighe, legislative counsel for the Regulatory Relief Coalition, a group of physician specialty organizations advocating for regulatory burden reduction in Medicare, when she was asked about the Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act, which was approved last week by the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee.
The measure, which seeks more… Read more »
Today, Representatives Suzan DelBene (WA-01) and John Joyce, M.D. (PA-13) introduced bipartisan legislation to help Americans understand kidney disease risks and treatment so they can get care before the condition worsens, potentially leading to kidney failure, and forcing them onto dialysis or the transplant list.
Thirty-seven million Americans have chronic kidney disease (CKD), but 87%… Read more »
Today, Representatives Suzan DelBene (WA-01), Jamie Raskin (MD-08), and Lori Trahan (MA-03), along with 122 of their colleagues, demanded that the Trump administration stop injecting its MAGA agenda into the traditionally nonpartisan federal grantmaking process. In a letter to White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director… Read more »
The Arizona-based company using artificial intelligence to review certain Medicare requests in Washington state under a controversial six-year pilot program has been found out of compliance by the federal government.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Monday that Virtix Health was required to submit a Corrective Action Plan because it was not responding quickly… Read more »
The House Energy & Commerce health subcommittee advanced a broad package of bipartisan health care bills Thursday (June 25) aimed at increasing health care price transparency and strengthening prior authorization oversight.
The package includes measures requiring hospitals, insurers and other providers to disclose more pricing information, increasing reporting requirements… Read more »
Dive Brief:
Democrat lawmakers are calling on the CMS to release more data on a controversial pilot program that adds artificial intelligence-backed prior authorization for some services in traditional Medicare.
In a letter sent to CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz on Monday, representatives pushed the agency to release information on how long it takes technology vendors… Read more »
For months, Medicare patients in Washington have struggled with delays and denials for medical treatments due to a new program that uses artificial intelligence to review care.
Now, patients and their doctors are fed up and demanding changes. Lawmakers scrutinizing the program want to see it overhauled.
“Congress and the public deserve a full understanding of the impact this program is… Read more »
Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) hosted health care providers and Medicare patients at UW Medical Center to raise growing concerns about the Trump administration’s Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) program, which pays private companies to use AI to delay and deny care to Washington seniors.
Since the program began in January, patients have been left in… Read more »
