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Congress returned last week for the first of two lame duck session, for the first week of 15 November and the second to start the 29th November and last until mid-December. Given the election results, and the size of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives (the largest of 1948), the first week back on the organization and more posturing than it is called the law. As for the leadership of each party in the Senate re-elected the same team since the last Congress to serve in the upcoming 112 Congress (2011-2012). As expected, House Republicans elected Ohio Rep. John Boehner as the incoming speaker, with the remaining Republican leadership posts align with the same pecking order as the 111th Congress. House Democrats are pretty much followed the same pattern from the Nancy Pelosi (soon to be ex-president) was elected Minority Leader, although conservative Democrats led the futile battle of her office. After the Democrats created a whole new fourth place in the leadership of the current # 3, James Clyburn (South Carolina), the struggle for Minority Whip dispersed and went into the current majority leader, Steny Hoyer (Maryland). Regarding the legislation, Congress is nothing on many key issues, but is expected to act in another lame duck session expiring Bush tax cuts, continuing (budget) resolution that the government is doing (expires December 3rd), 1099 and repeal of new reporting requirement that PPACA imposed on small business.
The Senate, however, took a baby step toward staving off a 23 percent cut in Medicare physician should start first December, approving a measure to stop the cut until January 2011. House expected to pass the measure when Congress returns for its second session of a weakling. Just in case there are delays of Congress, CMS has announced the suspension of claims processing to 14 December, so any delay in the passage of the house does not lead to an actual cut in physician payments. Just how Congress will deal with the scheduled 2011 cut of 26 percent remains an open question, one that must be answered until the next Congress.
Only regulators pumping paper with meaning. This week, HHS announced that the issuance of regulations that closely follow the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) recommendations for implementing new medical loss ratio (MLR) requirement as part of patient protection and affordable PPACA Welfare Act). At the beginning of next year, PPACA requires that insurers spend 80 (small group and individual) to 85 percent (large group) of premium dollars on health services, or face the prospect of providing rebates to consumers. draft detection of new regulations and reporting requirements and how insurers must calculate the MLRS.
Last week, key federal agencies (Labour, Treasury, HHS) issued a revision of previously issued interim final regulation stated that the grandfathering rules allowing customers to "keep the coverage" of 23 March 2010, the date the President signed PPACA. review published last week provides additional flexibility for fully insured plans grandfathered allowing them to change insurers without prejudice to their status grandfathered same self-insured plan may change the third party administrator (without loss of grandfathered status).
Congress returned last week for the first of two lame duck session, for the first week of 15 November and the second to start the 29th November and last until mid-December. Given the election results, and the size of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives (the largest of 1948), the first week back on the organization and more posturing than it is called the law. As for the leadership of each party in the Senate re-elected the same team since the last Congress to serve in the upcoming 112 Congress (2011-2012). As expected, House Republicans elected Ohio Rep. John Boehner as the incoming speaker, with the remaining Republican leadership posts align with the same pecking order as the 111th Congress. House Democrats are pretty much followed the same pattern from the Nancy Pelosi (soon to be ex-president) was elected Minority Leader, although conservative Democrats led the futile battle of her office. After the Democrats created a whole new fourth place in the leadership of the current # 3, James Clyburn (South Carolina), the struggle for Minority Whip dispersed and went into the current majority leader, Steny Hoyer (Maryland). Regarding the legislation, Congress is nothing on many key issues, but is expected to act in another lame duck session expiring Bush tax cuts, continuing (budget) resolution that the government is doing (expires December 3rd), 1099 and repeal of new reporting requirement that PPACA imposed on small business.
The Senate, however, took a baby step toward staving off a 23 percent cut in Medicare physician should start first December, approving a measure to stop the cut until January 2011. House expected to pass the measure when Congress returns for its second session of a weakling. Just in case there are delays of Congress, CMS has announced the suspension of claims processing to 14 December, so any delay in the passage of the house does not lead to an actual cut in physician payments. Just how Congress will deal with the scheduled 2011 cut of 26 percent remains an open question, one that must be answered until the next Congress.
Only regulators pumping paper with meaning. This week, HHS announced that the issuance of regulations that closely follow the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) recommendations for implementing new medical loss ratio (MLR) requirement as part of patient protection and affordable PPACA Welfare Act). At the beginning of next year, PPACA requires that insurers spend 80 (small group and individual) to 85 percent (large group) of premium dollars on health services, or face the prospect of providing rebates to consumers. draft detection of new regulations and reporting requirements and how insurers must calculate the MLRS.
Last week, key federal agencies (Labour, Treasury, HHS) issued a revision of previously issued interim final regulation stated that the grandfathering rules allowing customers to "keep the coverage" of 23 March 2010, the date the President signed PPACA. review published last week provides additional flexibility for fully insured plans grandfathered allowing them to change insurers without prejudice to their status grandfathered same self-insured plan may change the third party administrator (without loss of grandfathered status).
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