Billy Wynne

Agency Launches Voluntary Medicaid Quality Initiative Focused on Health Outcomes with 37 States

By Billy Wynne / September 25, 2026

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the launch of the Investing in Health Outcomes (IHO) initiative, a voluntary effort with states to…

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Agency Finds ICE Expanded Immigration Detention Without Comprehensive Planning, Resulting in Millions in Waste; Additional immigration Developments

By Billy Wynne / September 25, 2026

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report finding that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rapidly expanded immigration detention capacity without first developing a…

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Committee Questions FDA Commissioner Nominee on Vaccines, Political Interference, Mifepristone, and More

By Billy Wynne / September 24, 2026

Today, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) held a hearing to consider the nomination of Dr. Heidi Overton to serve as…

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RFI Issued on Medicare Part D Reasonable and Relevant Pharmacy Contracting Standards; Comments Due November 23

By Billy Wynne / September 23, 2026

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a request for information (RFI) on establishing standards for reasonable and relevant pharmacy contract terms and…

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Warner, Wyden Reintroduce Health Care Cybersecurity Bill as Congress Examines Broader Cyber and AI Risks

By Billy Wynne / September 22, 2026

Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) reintroduced the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act (S.5443), legislation that would establish mandatory federal cybersecurity requirements…

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Temporary Moratorium on New Agent and Broker Registration in Federally-Facilitated Exchanges

By Billy Wynne / September 22, 2026

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an interim final rule with comment period (IFC) to impose a temporary moratorium pausing the registration of new…

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Agency Seeks Input on Intermediaries and Public Health Data Exchange

By Billy Wynne / September 21, 2026

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a request for information on data intermediaries and approaches to strengthen public health data exchange. CDC says…

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WISeR Updates: Model Performance Metrics, Congress, and FOIA Documents

By Billy Wynne / September 21, 2026

Below, we describe recent updates related to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI’s) Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model that tests the use…

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Committee Advances Bills on Preventive Health Savings and CBO Baseline Updates

By Billy Wynne / September 17, 2026

The House Budget Committee convened a markup of two bipartisan bills aimed at improving the information available to Congress through more frequent Congressional Budget Office…

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Agency Releases Additional Guidance on Implementing Work Requirements Medical Frailty Framework

By Billy Wynne / September 17, 2026

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released new guidance to states on how to implement the Medicaid work requirements established in H.R. 1.…

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