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Right here’s what we’re watching in Washington:
Finances Invoice Slashing Medicaid and SNAP Signed into Legislation
On July 4, President Trump signed the price range reconciliation invoice (H.R. 1) into regulation. On July 3, the Home narrowly handed H.R. 1 by a vote of 218-214, with solely Republican assist. It beforehand handed within the Senate on July 1 with the Vice President casting the tie-breaking vote. This laws makes the most important cuts in historical past to Medicaid and the Supplemental Diet Help Program (SNAP) and undermines older adults’ entry to Medicare and the Inexpensive Care Act.
Learn Justice in Growing old’s assertion and our evaluation of the Medicaid and Medicare provisions impacting low-income older adults. We shall be offering further evaluation and assets for advocates within the coming weeks.
Share Your Medicaid Story
July is Incapacity Satisfaction Month and marks the sixtieth anniversary of Medicaid and Medicare and the thirty fifth anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Act (ADA). Justice in Growing old is partnering with advocates to carry a 60-hour vigil on the Nationwide Mall in honor of the sixtieth anniversary of Medicaid and Medicare. From July 23 at 9:00 p.m. till 9:00 a.m. ET on the twenty sixth, we’ll be sharing tales and taking motion to carry our elected leaders accountable for his or her choice to chop trillions of {dollars} from Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP.
We wish to share tales from you and your purchasers about how these cuts to Medicaid and different packages will hurt older adults. Please share your story utilizing this way by July 18. Study extra concerning the vigil and methods to be part of us in individual and nearly.
CMS Broadcasts New Prior Authorization Actions in Conventional Medicare
Starting January 2026, CMS will begin a new prior authorization mannequin in Conventional Medicare. The brand new mannequin is known as the “Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Discount (WISeR) Mannequin.” The mannequin will function in six states (Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington) and can apply to 17 companies, together with knee arthroscopy for osteoarthritis, numerous nerve stimulators, and a few steroid injections for ache. The mannequin shall be operated by expertise firms who’re presently engaged in prior authorization actions in different well being programs, and they’re going to obtain a share of the financial savings from denials.
Prior authorization is presently uncommon in Conventional Medicare. Prior authorization in Medicare Benefit has been tied to delays in care. Justice in Growing old has referred to as for higher shopper protections for sufferers coping with prior authorization.
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