Washington, D.C. — Today, the House passed H.R. 485, the Protecting Care for All Patients Act, to ban federal health programs from using discriminatory measures known as Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) by a vote of 211 to 208. The legislation is led by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), House Ways ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Over 250 medications are currently in short supply, covering everything from asthma and blood clots to treatments for multiple kinds of cancers. At the same time, America is too dependent on foreign countries for ingredients and medical supplies, warned witnesses at a Tuesday Ways and Means Committee hearing on the drug shortage ...
"It's clear to me that we need to incentivize the development of higher quality drugs and improve purchasing dynamics without relying on mandates from Washington."
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new Government Accountability Office report looking into the independent dispute resolution (IDR) process validates bipartisan concern of Ways and Means Committee members about the Biden Administration’s poor implementation of the No ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Ways and Means Committee focused on listening to the American people, strengthening working and middle-class families, and holding government and the Biden Administration accountable throughout 2023. As promised, the Committee’s policy and oversight work centered on protecting and advancing the interests of working families and ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House of Representatives today passed landmark bipartisan legislation to lower the cost of health care and increase price transparency for patients. Led by House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and ...
"The Lower Costs, More Transparency Act empowers patients and will lower health care costs for millions of Americans."
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"The Lower Costs, More Transparency Act empowers ...
WASHINGTON – Following a September hearing examining the fallout from the flawed implementation of surprise medical billing protections and an October roundtable with Biden Administration officials highlighting the problems with the Administration’s implementation of the No Surprises Act, Ways and Means Republicans are continuing to ...
WASHINGTON – The Biden Administration recently proposed a one-size-fits-all federal nurse staffing mandate, despite overwhelming evidence that such a policy would be ...
Nearly three years after President Trump signed into law the No Surprises Act, which contained historic new consumer protections for patients and their families against surprise medical billing, the Administration has struggled to fully implement the law as Congress wrote it. As members