Jalen Brown

3 days ago | insidehealthpolicy.com | Jalen Brown

House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-TX) praised the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) updated analysis of the Medicaid changes in the House’s recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) as showing the federal government and states would save billions by kicking off ineligible or able-bodied working adults, as a rebuttal to Democratic claims that “vulnerable Americans are being kicked off Medicaid.”

4 days ago | insidehealthpolicy.com | Jalen Brown

More than 60 major health insurance companies signed a non-binding pledge with the federal government Monday (June 23) committing to six actions intended to streamline the notoriously unpopular prior authorization process across insurance markets and ultimately reduce unnecessary delays in care that often result from the practice.

4 days ago | insidehealthpolicy.com | Jalen Brown

More than 60 major health insurance companies signed a non-binding pledge with the federal government Monday (June 23) committing to six actions intended to streamline the notoriously unpopular prior authorization process across insurance markets and ultimately reduce unnecessary delays in care that often result from the practice.

1 week ago | insidehealthpolicy.com | Jalen Brown

The CEOs of Community Health Centers (CHCs) in Missouri, Texas and North Carolina told Inside Health Policy they traveled to Capitol Hill this week as part of an urgent lobbying push to warn lawmakers that proposed Medicaid cuts would backfire on these health centers, which are legally required to serve all patients regardless of their ability to pay and get roughly half their revenue from Medicaid -- and comes as CHCs also face losing federal funding unless Congress acts by Oct. 1.

1 week ago | insidehealthpolicy.com | Jalen Brown

Physician groups are calling for major reforms, or even a full replacement, of the widely unpopular Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in response to the Trump administration’s recent request for information (RFI) on ways to deregulate the Medicare program.