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Talk politics at complex rehab conference

March 31, 2017HME News Staff

WASHINGTON - Among the sessions at the upcoming National CRT Leadership and Advocacy Conference will be a panel presentation providing an overview of the healthcare issues, options and politics in Washington, D.C. Participating in the panel will be Eric Gascho, vice president of government affairs at the National Health Council; and Amy Cunniffe, principal, and Sarah Egge, senior manager, of the Washington Council at Ernst & Young. NCART says the session will be a “great primer”...

Complex Rehab, Conference, Politics


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On the Editor's Desk

The political landscape in early 2014

January 2, 2014Liz Beaulieu, Editor

We may have closed the book on 2013, but as The VGM Group's John Gallagher reminded me this week, we didn't close the book on replacing the competitive bidding program with a market-pricing program (MPP) program. In the House of Representatives, H.R. 1717 still has a pulse with 164 co-sponsors in the 113th Congress. In the Senate, an amendment requiring providers to prove they meet licensure requirements in states where they don't have a presence before they submit bids, is tucked into a recently...

Competitive Bidding, Doc Fix Bill, John Gallagher, Politics


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