The IndyBar Legislative Committee is currently monitoring the following health care related legislation.

Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced a new voluntary program, Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Advanced (“BPCI Advanced”) which expands on the previous BPCI program to pay participating providers a bundled payment based on performance for 32 types of clinical episodes.

The Trump administration released landmark guidance this week aimed at allowing states to impose work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries, a major shift in the design of the health insurance program for the poor and disabled.

I was very grateful to the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Health Care and Life Sciences Division for choosing me as the recipient of their annual AHLA Fundamentals of Health Law scholarship. It was an intellectually rewarding experience and I was honored that the IndyBar gave me the opportunity to build upon my Health Law background.

This section of the Indianapolis Bar Association is in the process of selecting its Executive Committee members for 2018. We currently have an active Executive Committee, which meets monthly in order to plan and execute social events, educational programming and community service initiatives.

Take a look at this Chicago Tribune opinion piece by Senator Karen Tallian.

About 100 Hoosiers die from drug overdoses every month, many from opioids such as heroin and prescription painkillers. The widespread use of opioids is fueling one of the worst addiction crisis in United States history.

Indiana has the 17th-highest rate of overdose deaths of any state, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but is one of the hardest places to find treatment in the nation.

The deadline to submit public comments on the proposed rule is October 16, 2017 by 5:00 p.m. EDT. 

The Health & Life Sciences Section is pleased to announce it is offering  scholarships for the American Health Lawyers Association Fundamentals of Health Law Conference, November 6-8, 2017, in Chicago.

A health insurer has agreed to sell Affordable Care Act health plans next year in a rural Ohio county, filling in the nation’s last potential bare patch in the marketplaces created under the law.