Reducing Coverage Gaps for Kids Act of 2007

Legislation regarding Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement issues which include provisions to expand access, improve services, stabilize payments to hospitals and other providers under Medicaid, Medicare, and/or SCHIP by addressing reimbursement, parity, quality, self-referral, workforce, payment issues, rehabilitation hospitals, long term care hospitals, rural hospitals and various regulations. HR 2055 Improving Children's Access to Health Care Act, to improve children's access to health care coverage under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). HR 2606, 340B Drug Expansion Act of 2007, to revise and expand the drug discount program under that section to improve the provision of discounts on drug purchases for certain safety net providers. S 355, Social Security and Medicare Solvency Commission Act, to create a permanent, 15-member commission to make recommendations on how best to save the entitlement programs HR 4105; the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor Program Moratorium Act of 2007 that would enact a one-year, nationwide moratorium on the Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) program. H Con Res 312/S Con Res 70, fiscal year (FY)2009 budget resolutions, Medicare and Medicaid reductions HR 5480/S 2662, Medicare Funding Warning Response Act, various provisions S 2785, Save Medicare Act physician payment, exceptions process for therapy caps, direct billing by independent labs for pathology services, cost-based payment for rural lab services, and provisions allowing certain hospitals to be eligible for wage index reclassification. S. 3101; Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers physician payment, exceptions process for therapy caps, direct billing by independent labs for pathology services, cost-based payment for rural lab services, and provisions allowing certain hospitals to be eligible for wage index HR 6331, Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act physician payment, exceptions process for therapy caps, direct billing by independent labs for pathology services, cost-based payment for rural lab services, and provisions allowing certain hospitals to be eligible for wage index HR 6252/S3144, would delay for 18 months the Medicare competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies. Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (HR 2642) Sec. 7001. (a) Moratoria on Certain Medicaid Regulations HR 5268: To provide for a temporary increase of the Federal medical assistance percentage under the Medicaid Program HR 7110: Job Creation and Unemployment Relief Act: Title III, temporary increase in Medicaid matching rate S 3656: Preserving Access to Healthcare (PATH) Act -- which would delay cuts to Medicare capital indirect medical education (IME) payments for six months self-referral HR 1424; Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act provision banning the growth of physician-owned specialty hospitals workforce, HR3043/S1710; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill; nursing education, national health service corp, rural health programs, childrens hospitals GME, S 543/HR 1459, Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007"; to extend the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare program. HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act" payment: HR 2206, U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act supplemental appropriations bill (HR 2206) contained moratorium on medicaid regulations regarding capping payment to public providers and GME HR 1480/1741/S 787, to place a two-year moratorium on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implementation of medicaid regulations regarding capping payment to public providers and GME funding from Section 1011 of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), HR 1293, Access to Medicare Imaging Act stop the reduction Medicare reimbursements for some medical imaging services HR 882, Access to Emergency Services Act that would increase by 10 percent Medicare reimbursements to physicians who provide care in emergency departments (EDs) or post-stabilization care related to emergency medical conditions in other areas of hospitals HR 552/S 329, The Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation Act of 2007 to provide for coverage of items and services under a cardiac rehabilitation program and a pulmonary rehabilitation program. HR 3533/S2460, "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME HR 3668, TMA, Abstinence Education, and QI Programs Extension Act includes provision which would mitigate the impact of the behavioral offset in the FY08 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Permanently freezes the inpatient rehabilitation services compliance threshold at 60 percent, Extends for six months the work geographic index floor, for six months the provision that allows independent laboratories to continue to bill Medicare directly for the technical component of certain physician pathology services, Provides reasonable cost reimbursement for clinical lab tests performed by certain small rural hospitals, Section 508 hospitals HR 5268: To provide for a temporary increase of the Federal medical assistance percentage under the Medicaid Program quality S 1226, Children's Health Care Quality Act would allow the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to fund evidence-based demonstrations to improve hospital care for children. HR 1666, Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act which would build on existing state efforts to report hospital pricing data and require insurers to disclose estimated out-of-pocket costs to consumers S 465; Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act of 2007" to improve access to information about healthcare options and legal rights for care near the end of life rehabilitation hospitals, S543/HR 1459, Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007"; to extend the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare program S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Permanently freezes the inpatient rehabilitation services compliance threshold at 60 percent, rural hospitals, S 1605/HR 2860, Health Care Access and Rural Equity Act (H-CARE) S 1595, Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act CAHs would gain flexibility to respond to daily and seasonal fluctuations in patient load S 2499;; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Extends for six months the work geographic index floor, for six months the provision that allows independent laboratories to continue to bill Medicare directly for the technical component of certain physician pathology services, Provides reasonable cost reimbursement for clinical lab tests performed by certain small rural hospitals long term care hospitals: HR 562/S338, Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement establishing facility and patient criteria for long-term care hospitals and related improvements under the Medicare Program. S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Provides regulatory relief for three years to ensure continued access to current long-term care hospital services, while also imposing a limited moratorium on the development of new, long-term care facilities. Medicaid, HR 2512, Reducing Coverage Gaps for Kids Act To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to prohibit States from requiring eligibility determinations for children for benefits under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) more frequently than once every year. HR 2147, Healthy Kids Act to amend titles XXI and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and streamline enrollment under SCHIP and Medicaid and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a healthy savings tax credit for purchase of children's health coverage. HR1111, Kids Come First Act to ensure that every uninsured child in America has health insurance coverage, HR 1878, To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States, at their option, to require certain individuals to present satisfactory documentary evidence of proof of citizenship or nationality for purposes of eligibility for Medicaid HR 3533/S2460 "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME HR 5613, Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act, temporary, one-year moratorium on seven Medicaid regulations S 2819, Economic Recovery in Health Care Act to implement a one-year moratorium on proposed regulatory changes to Medicaid and the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and to provide states in need with federal relief HR 2462, the supplemental funding bill for Iraq and Afghanistan provision to place a temporary, one-year moratorium on seven Medicaid regulations, including the rules to limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and to eliminate Government Medical Education (GME). SCHIP: S 1224, that would reauthorize the State Childrens Health Insurance Program and expand it to allow additional coverage to six million children within 10 years S 895/HR 1535, HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act" HR 976 in the Senate, Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act S. 1893, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 S 2049, The Better Health for America's Children Act," to block a new policy to limit states' ability to enroll children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program S 2152, Kids First Actalternative SCHIP bill that would restrict coverage to individuals younger than age 19 in low-income families HR 3963; Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act revised bill to extend and expand the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) S 2499 the bill extends SCHIP through March 31, 2009, and provides adequate funding to states to maintain their current enrollment through that date. HR 3533, "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME regulations including, but not limited to, provisions of PL 106-554, Consolidated Appropriations Act, provisions related to critical access hospitals, inpatient hospital services Direct Graduate Medical Education, Hospital Outpatient Services, Skilled Nursing Facilities, State Children's Health Insurance Program PL 108-173, Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, provisions related to rural hospitals, inpatient hospital services, skilled nursing facilities, hospice care, hospital outpatient departments, health care quality PL 109-171; Deficit Reduction Act, provisions related to rehabilitation hospitals, medicaid DSH payment, medicare-dependent hospitals, gainsharing, Medicaid, SHCHIP the FY08 IPPS proposed rule, proposed Medicaid rule (CMS 2258-P), the Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) demonstration.

Client expense: $100,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, White House Office

Legislation regarding Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement issues which include provisions to expand access, improve services, stabilize payments to hospitals and other providers under Medicaid, Medicare, and/or SCHIP by addressing reimbursement, parity, quality, self-referral, workforce, payment issues, rehabilitation hospitals, long term care hospitals, rural hospitals and various regulations. HR 2055 Improving Children's Access to Health Care Act, to improve children's access to health care coverage under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). HR 2606, 340B Drug Expansion Act of 2007, to revise and expand the drug discount program under that section to improve the provision of discounts on drug purchases for certain safety net providers. S 355, Social Security and Medicare Solvency Commission Act, to create a permanent, 15-member commission to make recommendations on how best to save the entitlement programs HR 4105; the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor Program Moratorium Act of 2007 that would enact a one-year, nationwide moratorium on the Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) program. H Con Res 312/S Con Res 70, fiscal year (FY)2009 budget resolutions, Medicare and Medicaid reductions HR 5480/S 2662, Medicare Funding Warning Response Act, various provisions S 2785, Save Medicare Act physician payment, exceptions process for therapy caps, direct billing by independent labs for pathology services, cost-based payment for rural lab services, and provisions allowing certain hospitals to be eligible for wage index reclassification. S. 3101; Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers physician payment, exceptions process for therapy caps, direct billing by independent labs for pathology services, cost-based payment for rural lab services, and provisions allowing certain hospitals to be eligible for wage index HR 6331, Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act physician payment, exceptions process for therapy caps, direct billing by independent labs for pathology services, cost-based payment for rural lab services, and provisions allowing certain hospitals to be eligible for wage index HR 6252/S3144, would delay for 18 months the Medicare competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies. self-referral HR 1424; Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act provision banning the growth of physician-owned specialty hospitals workforce, HR3043/S1710; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill; nursing education, national health service corp, rural health programs, childrens hospitals GME, S 543/HR 1459, Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007"; to extend the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare program. HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act" payment: HR 2206, U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act supplemental appropriations bill (HR 2206) contained moratorium on medicaid regulations regarding capping payment to public providers and GME HR 1480/1741/S 787, to place a two-year moratorium on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implementation of medicaid regulations regarding capping payment to public providers and GME funding from Section 1011 of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), HR 1293, Access to Medicare Imaging Act stop the reduction Medicare reimbursements for some medical imaging services HR 882, Access to Emergency Services Act that would increase by 10 percent Medicare reimbursements to physicians who provide care in emergency departments (EDs) or post-stabilization care related to emergency medical conditions in other areas of hospitals HR 552/S 329, The Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation Act of 2007 to provide for coverage of items and services under a cardiac rehabilitation program and a pulmonary rehabilitation program. HR 3533/S2460, "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME HR 3668, TMA, Abstinence Education, and QI Programs Extension Act includes provision which would mitigate the impact of the behavioral offset in the FY08 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Permanently freezes the inpatient rehabilitation services compliance threshold at 60 percent, Extends for six months the work geographic index floor, for six months the provision that allows independent laboratories to continue to bill Medicare directly for the technical component of certain physician pathology services, Provides reasonable cost reimbursement for clinical lab tests performed by certain small rural hospitals, Section 508 hospitals quality S 1226, Children's Health Care Quality Act would allow the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to fund evidence-based demonstrations to improve hospital care for children. HR 1666, Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act which would build on existing state efforts to report hospital pricing data and require insurers to disclose estimated out-of-pocket costs to consumers S 465; Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act of 2007" to improve access to information about healthcare options and legal rights for care near the end of life rehabilitation hospitals, S543/HR 1459, Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007"; to extend the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare program S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Permanently freezes the inpatient rehabilitation services compliance threshold at 60 percent, rural hospitals, S 1605/HR 2860, Health Care Access and Rural Equity Act (H-CARE) S 1595, Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act CAHs would gain flexibility to respond to daily and seasonal fluctuations in patient load S 2499;; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Extends for six months the work geographic index floor, for six months the provision that allows independent laboratories to continue to bill Medicare directly for the technical component of certain physician pathology services, Provides reasonable cost reimbursement for clinical lab tests performed by certain small rural hospitals long term care hospitals: HR 562/S338, Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement establishing facility and patient criteria for long-term care hospitals and related improvements under the Medicare Program. S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Provides regulatory relief for three years to ensure continued access to current long-term care hospital services, while also imposing a limited moratorium on the development of new, long-term care facilities. Medicaid, HR 2512, Reducing Coverage Gaps for Kids Act To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to prohibit States from requiring eligibility determinations for children for benefits under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) more frequently than once every year. HR 2147, Healthy Kids Act to amend titles XXI and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and streamline enrollment under SCHIP and Medicaid and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a healthy savings tax credit for purchase of children's health coverage. HR1111, Kids Come First Act to ensure that every uninsured child in America has health insurance coverage, HR 1878, To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States, at their option, to require certain individuals to present satisfactory documentary evidence of proof of citizenship or nationality for purposes of eligibility for Medicaid HR 3533/S2460 "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME HR 5613, Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act, temporary, one-year moratorium on seven Medicaid regulations S 2819, Economic Recovery in Health Care Act to implement a one-year moratorium on proposed regulatory changes to Medicaid and the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and to provide states in need with federal relief HR 2462, the supplemental funding bill for Iraq and Afghanistan provision to place a temporary, one-year moratorium on seven Medicaid regulations, including the rules to limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and to eliminate Government Medical Education (GME). SCHIP: S 1224, that would reauthorize the State Childrens Health Insurance Program and expand it to allow additional coverage to six million children within 10 years S 895/HR 1535, HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act" HR 976 in the Senate, Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act S. 1893, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 S 2049, The Better Health for America's Children Act," to block a new policy to limit states' ability to enroll children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program S 2152, Kids First Actalternative SCHIP bill that would restrict coverage to individuals younger than age 19 in low-income families HR 3963; Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act revised bill to extend and expand the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) S 2499 the bill extends SCHIP through March 31, 2009, and provides adequate funding to states to maintain their current enrollment through that date. HR 3533, "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME regulations including, but not limited to, provisions of PL 106-554, Consolidated Appropriations Act, provisions related to critical access hospitals, inpatient hospital services Direct Graduate Medical Education, Hospital Outpatient Services, Skilled Nursing Facilities, State Children's Health Insurance Program PL 108-173, Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, provisions related to rural hospitals, inpatient hospital services, skilled nursing facilities, hospice care, hospital outpatient departments, health care quality PL 109-171; Deficit Reduction Act, provisions related to rehabilitation hospitals, medicaid DSH payment, medicare-dependent hospitals, gainsharing, Medicaid, SHCHIP the FY08 IPPS proposed rule, proposed Medicaid rule (CMS 2258-P), the Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) demonstration.

Client expense: $120,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), SENATE, White House Office

Legislation regarding Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement issues which include provisions to expand access, improve services, stabilize payments to hospitals and other providers under Medicaid, Medicare, and/or SCHIP by addressing reimbursement, parity, quality, self-referral, workforce, payment issues, rehabilitation hospitals, long term care hospitals, rural hospitals and various regulations. HR 2055 Improving Children's Access to Health Care Act, to improve children's access to health care coverage under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). HR 2606, 340B Drug Expansion Act of 2007, to revise and expand the drug discount program under that section to improve the provision of discounts on drug purchases for certain safety net providers. S 355, Social Security and Medicare Solvency Commission Act, to create a permanent, 15-member commission to make recommendations on how best to save the entitlement programs HR 4105; the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor Program Moratorium Act of 2007 that would enact a one-year, nationwide moratorium on the Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) program. H Con Res 312/S Con Res 70, fiscal year (FY)2009 budget resolutions, Medicare and Medicaid reductions HR 5480/S 2662, Medicare Funding Warning Response Act, various provisions self-referral HR 1424; Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act provision banning the growth of physician-owned specialty hospitals workforce, HR3043/S1710; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill; nursing education, national health service corp, rural health programs, childrens hospitals GME, S 543/HR 1459, Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007"; to extend the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare program. HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act" payment: HR 2206, U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act supplemental appropriations bill (HR 2206) contained moratorium on medicaid regulations regarding capping payment to public providers and GME HR 1480/1741/S 787, to place a two-year moratorium on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implementation of medicaid regulations regarding capping payment to public providers and GME funding from Section 1011 of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), HR 1293, Access to Medicare Imaging Act stop the reduction Medicare reimbursements for some medical imaging services HR 882, Access to Emergency Services Act that would increase by 10 percent Medicare reimbursements to physicians who provide care in emergency departments (EDs) or post-stabilization care related to emergency medical conditions in other areas of hospitals HR 552/S 329, The Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation Act of 2007 to provide for coverage of items and services under a cardiac rehabilitation program and a pulmonary rehabilitation program. HR 3533/S2460, "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME HR 3668, TMA, Abstinence Education, and QI Programs Extension Act includes provision which would mitigate the impact of the behavioral offset in the FY08 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Permanently freezes the inpatient rehabilitation services compliance threshold at 60 percent, Extends for six months the work geographic index floor, for six months the provision that allows independent laboratories to continue to bill Medicare directly for the technical component of certain physician pathology services, Provides reasonable cost reimbursement for clinical lab tests performed by certain small rural hospitals, Section 508 hospitals quality S 1226, Children's Health Care Quality Act would allow the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to fund evidence-based demonstrations to improve hospital care for children. HR 1666, Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act which would build on existing state efforts to report hospital pricing data and require insurers to disclose estimated out-of-pocket costs to consumers S 465; Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act of 2007" to improve access to information about healthcare options and legal rights for care near the end of life rehabilitation hospitals, S543/HR 1459, Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007"; to extend the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare program S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Permanently freezes the inpatient rehabilitation services compliance threshold at 60 percent, rural hospitals, S 1605/HR 2860, Health Care Access and Rural Equity Act (H-CARE) S 1595, Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act CAHs would gain flexibility to respond to daily and seasonal fluctuations in patient load S 2499;; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Extends for six months the work geographic index floor, for six months the provision that allows independent laboratories to continue to bill Medicare directly for the technical component of certain physician pathology services, Provides reasonable cost reimbursement for clinical lab tests performed by certain small rural hospitals long term care hospitals: HR 562/S338 Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement establishing facility and patient criteria for long-term care hospitals and related improvements under the Medicare Program. S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Provides regulatory relief for three years to ensure continued access to current long-term care hospital services, while also imposing a limited moratorium on the development of new, long-term care facilities. Medicaid, HR 2512, Reducing Coverage Gaps for Kids Act To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to prohibit States from requiring eligibility determinations for children for benefits under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) more frequently than once every year. HR 2147, Healthy Kids Act to amend titles XXI and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and streamline enrollment under SCHIP and Medicaid and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a healthy savings tax credit for purchase of children's health coverage. HR1111, Kids Come First Act to ensure that every uninsured child in America has health insurance coverage, HR 1878, To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States, at their option, to require certain individuals to present satisfactory documentary evidence of proof of citizenship or nationality for purposes of eligibility for Medicaid HR 3533/S2460 "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME HR 5613, Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act, temporary, one-year moratorium on seven Medicaid regulations SCHIP: S 1224, that would reauthorize the State Childrens Health Insurance Program and expand it to allow additional coverage to six million children within 10 years S 895/HR 1535, HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act" HR 976 in the Senate, Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act S. 1893, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 S 2049, The Better Health for America's Children Act," to block a new policy to limit states' ability to enroll children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program S 2152, Kids First Actalternative SCHIP bill that would restrict coverage to individuals younger than age 19 in low-income families HR 3963; Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act revised bill to extend and expand the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) S 2499 the bill extends SCHIP through March 31, 2009, and provides adequate funding to states to maintain their current enrollment through that date. HR 3533, "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME regulations including, but not limited to, provisions of PL 106-554, Consolidated Appropriations Act, provisions related to critical access hospitals, inpatient hospital services Direct Graduate Medical Education, Hospital Outpatient Services, Skilled Nursing Facilities, State Children's Health Insurance Program PL 108-173, Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, provisions related to rural hospitals, inpatient hospital services, skilled nursing facilities, hospice care, hospital outpatient departments, health care quality PL 109-171; Deficit Reduction Act, provisions related to rehabilitation hospitals, medicaid DSH payment, medicare-dependent hospitals, gainsharing, Medicaid, SHCHIP the FY08 IPPS proposed rule, proposed Medicaid rule (CMS 2258-P), the Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) demonstration.

Client expense: $120,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), SENATE, White House Office