The hospital industry wants President-elect Donald Trump and congressional leaders to preserve coverage gains when repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and, if not, they want legislators to repeal funding reductions for hospital services in the ACA. In a letter to the incoming administration and another to Congress, the American Hospital Association (AHA) and Federation of American […]
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Trump Picks Secretary of Health and Human Services
President-elect Donald Trump has selected Tom Price, MD, a six-term Republican congressman from Georgia and an orthopedic surgeon, as the next Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Price is chairman of the Committee on the Budget in the House of Representatives. He also serves on the House Ways and Means […]
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Trump Announces His Choice to Head CMS
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Seema Verma, a health policy expert in Indiana, as his pick for administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Verma is the President, CEO and founder of SVC, Inc., a national health policy consulting company. Verma previously worked under Indiana Governor and Vice-President Elect Mike Pence to […]
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10 Things to Watch as Trump Changes Healthcare
President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican Congress will take control of the country’s healthcare system in January, but don’t expect a quick or iconoclastic revamp, healthcare experts at Leavitt Partners recently told webinar attendees. However, when the executive and legislative branches of government are unified by party, major change is likely to happen, meaning that […]
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