Health Matters: Navigating ACA Reform

In addition to reforming the individual and small group health insurance markets and aspects of the group health insurance market, the ACA includes significant reforms to the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Examples of such reforms include filling the Medicare Part D “donut hole”, expanding Medicaid eligibility and creating both the Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. In addition, the ACA amended the 340B drug pricing program, created a new approval pathway for biosimilar biological products, and established the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

Sidley has assembled a dedicated task force that is closely monitoring all ACA-related developments. We will report on legislative and administrative proposals, as well as nominations and government investigations. We are ready to advise our clients on the impact of these developments and to assist in engaging and responding every step of the way.

• Department of Health and Human Services Names Additional People to Leadership Positions
  May 9, 2017
• Bipartisan Group of Senators Reintroduces CHRONIC Care Act; Senate Finance Committee Could Hold Markup in May
  May 9, 2017
• House and Senate Agree on a 2017 Fiscal Year Budget
  May 9, 2017
• House Narrowly Passes the American Health Care Act, 217-213
  May 9, 2017
• Senate Committee Votes to Advance Dr. Scott Gottlieb’s Nomination for Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration to Full Senate
  May 9, 2017
• President Trump Announces New Commission to Address the Opioid Epidemic
  April 12, 2017
• Additional Leadership Positions Filled at Department of Health and Human Services and Office of Management and Budget
  April 12, 2017
• House Republicans Offer New Amendment to American Health Care Act
  April 12, 2017
• U.S. Office of Management and Budget Issues Supplemental Guidance Document on Two-for-One Executive Order
  April 12, 2017
• American Health Care Act Suffers Defeat in the House
  March 29, 2017
• White House Fiscal Year 2018 “Skinny Budget” Targets Discretionary Healthcare Spending
  March 29, 2017
• American Health Care Act Congressional Budget Office Score Projects Savings Over 10 Years but Millions More Uninsured
  March 29, 2017
• Health and Human Services and Treasury Letter to Governors Promotes Affordable Care Act Innovation Waivers
  March 29, 2017
• Senate Confirms Seema Verma as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator, 55-43
  March 29, 2017
• Senate HELP Committee Holds Hearing on Food and Drug Administration User Fee Agreements
  March 29, 2017
• House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Food and Drug Administration Prescription Drug User Fees
  March 29, 2017
• Department of Health and Human Services Announces New Webpage to Track Agency Actions on Affordable Care Act
  March 29, 2017
• Trump Administration Names Additional Key Healthcare Staffers at Health and Human Services and White House
  March 29, 2017
• Sen. Sanders Introduces Drug Importation Bill on Feb. 28
  March 15, 2017
• House Health Subcommittee Holds Hearing on User Fee Program Reauthorizations and Generic Drug Competition Bill
  March 15, 2017
• To Congress, President Trump Addresses Affordable Care Act, Prescription Drug Costs and Food and Drug Administration
  March 15, 2017
• House Energy and Commerce Committee Advances American Health Care Act After 27-Hour Markup
  March 15, 2017
• House Committee on Ways and Means Passes American Health Care Act After Markup
  March 15, 2017
• American Health Care Act Moves Forward, Faces Challenges
  March 15, 2017
• Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Tom Price Begins Building his Team, Tapping Several Capitol Hill Veterans
  March 15, 2017
• Senate Finance Committee Holds Nomination Hearing on Verma for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator
  March 1, 2017
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Extends Deadline for Plan Year 2018 Qualified Health Plan Applications
  March 1, 2017
• Trump Administration Will Allow Certain Affordable Care Act Noncompliant Plans to Continue Through Dec. 31, 2018
  March 1, 2017
• House Republicans Publish Affordable Care Act “Repeal and Replace” Policy Brief
  March 1, 2017
• House Republicans and Trump Administration Ask Court to Delay House’s Lawsuit Challenging Affordable Care Act Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments
  March 1, 2017
• Leaked House Affordable Care Act Reconciliation Bill Would Bring Significant Changes to U.S. Healthcare System
  March 1, 2017
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Releases “Market Stabilization” Proposed Rule; Comments Due March 7
  February 24, 2017
• Republican Senator Outlines Plan for Phased-In Repeal of Affordable Care Act Taxes 
  February 17, 2017
• Senators Urge Health and Human Services Secretary to Use Statutory Authority to Allow Drugs from Canada
  February 17, 2017
• Senate Approves Rep. Tom Price for Department of Health and Human Services Secretary on Party Lines, 52-47
  February 10, 2017
• Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Focuses on Part B and Part D Reforms
  February 9, 2017
• House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Debates Two Medicaid Reform Bills
  February 9, 2017
• White House Office of Management and Budget Issues Guidance on the “2 for 1” Executive Order; Lawsuit Follows
  February 9, 2017
• Discussion of White House Office of Management and Budget Guidance on the “Regulatory Freeze Pending Review” Memo
  February 9, 2017
• House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Health Insurance Market Reforms on February 2, 2017
  February 3, 2017
• President Trump Issues Executive Order to Reduce Regulations and Regulatory Costs
  February 2, 2017
• Pharmaceutical Industry Executives Meet with President Trump on January 31, 2017
  February 2, 2017
• Senate Finance Committee Advances Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Nominee Rep. Tom Price on February 1, 2017
  February 2, 2017
• House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Medicaid Reform on February 1, 2017
  February 2, 2017
• Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Holds Hearing on the Individual Health Insurance Market on February 1, 2017
  February 2, 2017
• What Should Clinical Laboratories Expect in 2017?
  February 2017
• Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Holds Hearing on Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Nominee Rep. Tom Price on January 18, 2017
  January 26, 2017
• Senate Finance Committee Holds Hearing on Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Nominee Rep. Tom Price on January 24, 2017
  January 26, 2017
• President Trump Issues Executive Order 13765 on the Affordable Care Act 
  January 24, 2017
• The House Republican Study Committee’s Affordable Care Act Repeal and Replace Legislation: The American Health Care Reform Act of 2017 
  January 24, 2017
• Trump Administration Issues “Priebus Memo” Requiring Regulatory Freeze for Pending Regulations
  January 20, 2017
• Health and Human Services Announces Acting Officials
  January 18, 2017
• Congressional Budget Office Issues Report on Effects of Repealing Portions of the Affordable Care Act
  January 2017
• ACA in the 115th Congress: “Repeal and Replace” Strategy Moves Forward But Faces Hurdles
  January 2017
• President-elect Donald Trump’s HHS Landing Team Members
  January 2017
• Rep. Tom Price (R-GA): President-elect Donald Trump’s Nominee for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
  January 2017
• Seema Verma, MPH: President-elect Donald Trump’s Nominee for Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
  January 2017
• Election Results 2016: Preliminary Considerations for the Drug and Device Industry 
  November 17, 2016
• Election Results 2016: Preliminary Considerations for the Health Insurance Industry 
  November 15, 2016

If you have any questions regarding ACA reform and how it might have an impact on your business, please contact the Sidley lawyer with whom you usually work, or