Congress is on its way to extending the stop-gap funding bills into March (and may have already done so by the time you read this). Absent from the legislation to continue funding the federal ...

Here we go again! For the second year in a row, we enter the new year without Congress enacting a doc fix or Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM) bonus extension. While Congress did act last year ...

Editor's note: The spending package referenced in this story was passed in the House on the evening of March 11. Updated March 11, 11:00 a.m. The House rules committee advanced Johnson’s continuing ...

Update: Here is the Democrat denial on this memo, and the Politico withdrawal notice. Let’s hope someone wasn’t freelancing fake memos around the Hill. Or worse, had some direction to do so. It would ...

One area in which Congress has acted in a bipartisan manner is in crafting a permanent solution to the "doc fix," the sustainable growth rate formula. The latest - a bill to repeal and replace the SGR ...

WASHINGTON — House members repeatedly patted themselves on the back Thursday for passing a permanent fix to a broken Medicare funding formula, after years of “kicking the can down the road.” But even ...

The No. 2 House Democrat says bipartisan momentum is building in Congress to permanently fix a flaw in a federal payment system that annually threatens cuts to doctors who treat Medicare patients.

Democrats in the U.S. Senate are warming up to legislation that would permanently replace the flawed sustainable growth rate formula and extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program for two years, ...

Last week, House Republicans introduced the Middle Class Tax Relief and Jobs Creation Act to address a payroll tax reduction for middle class families, and it also included a temporary fix to the ...