Tuesday, January 07, 2020

Important Notice / Change of location for the FEHBlog

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The FEHBlog is being integrated into our law firm's refreshed website . The FEHBlog is pleased as punch to announce that his law firm...
Monday, January 06, 2020

Fascinating charts

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Check out the Peterson-KFF series of charts on how U.S. healthcare spending has changed over time, which was posted on December 20, 2019. Th...
Sunday, January 05, 2020

weekend update

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As Americans return to full work weeks following the holiday season, Congress begins the second session of the current 116th Congress here i...
Thursday, January 02, 2020

Thursday Miscellany

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Fierce Healthcare offers a bunch of snippet forecasts on the future of healthcare in 2020. For example We have a lot of hospital beds in b...

Happy New Year!

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The FEHBlog is pleased to announce that the name of his law firm has changed from the Ermer Law Group PLLC to Ermer & Suter, PLLC.  Jaso...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Final FEHBlog post of 2019 / the 2010s

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When the decade began, we were enmeshed in Congressional actions which lead to the enactment of the Affordable Care Act in March 2010. From ...
Monday, December 30, 2019

PCORI Funding Extended

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The Affordable Care Act created, and required health insurers and plans to fund, a Patient Centered  Outcomes Research Institute .The FEHBlo...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

Weekend update

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Congress remains out of town until next week. Readers may recall that the health insurer trade associations had requested the Department o...
Friday, December 27, 2019

CDC Updates

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According to Medscape , the Centers for Disease Control ("CDC") are finding that our country. is encountering a rough flu season...

End of year planning

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Yesterday the President signed an executive order implementing the Congressionally approved federal employee pay increase for the 2020 cale...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Jingle Bells

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Modern Healthcare discusses the status of surprise billing legislation. Months of debate on how to protect patients from out-of-network c...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Weekend update

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Congress is out of town until January 7, 2020. The President has signed into law the final two spending bills and the defense authorization...
Friday, December 20, 2019

Reflections on the week

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Wow what a week this has been. Congress repealed three Affordable Care Act taxes that raised or promised to raise the cost curve -- the medi...
Thursday, December 19, 2019

Thursday Miscellany

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The Senate joined the House of Representatives in passing by wide margins the two final FY 2020 spending bills (HR 1158 and 1865).  The Pres...