Lobbying news and information

Nurses, dentists and psychologists asked the Illinois Legislature this spring for more authority to make medical decisions with demand expected to surge under the federal healthcare law, but each time lawmakers sided with doctors and turned them down.
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The American Health Care Association and the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care have agreed to join their organizations and operate under the AHCA name beginning July 1.
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Almost no law as sprawling and consequential as the Affordable Care Act has passed without changes—significant structural changes or routine tweaks known as “technical corrections”—in subsequent months and years. But as they prowl Capitol Hill, business lobbyists, health...
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Legislation to muzzle Medicare auditors has received the biggest hospital lobbying push this year—so far, to little effect.
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A recent conference call reveals the extent to which a pipeline of valuable political insight exists between Capitol Hill and Wall Street, one that ordinary Americans and investors do not enjoy.
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Arkansas lawmakers gave final approval to the governor's plan to use new federal Medicaid funding to buy private coverage in insurance exchanges. Now it's likely to draw intense federal scrutiny.
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Arkansas' Medicaid expansion—potentially a model for many other states—has begun to advance in the legislature and supporters are optimistic about its prospects.
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Apparently swayed by insurers and lawmakers, the CMS backtracked on a plan to cut Medicare Advantage payments to insurers by 2.2% in 2014 and instead decided to give them a 3.3% increase.
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For four straight years, orthopedic surgeons have topped the Modern Healthcare/Modern Physician annual physician compensation survey, and the incoming president of the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons says this has helped make the specialty a target of scrutiny.
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Medical groups need to tell their stories on how federal regulations are affecting their operations and it would be helpful if the physicians in those groups contributed financially to lobbying efforts, according to speakers at the American Medical Group Association annual conference, which ended...
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