by Gordon Hensley | Mar 7, 2017 | advocacy, CMS, health care, Health Reform, Media Relations, Television, Trump
During any Washington press briefing — after the political figure delivers his or her canned opening statement — that moment of truth arrives during an aggressive reporter Q and A session when success or failure becomes apparent. HHS Secretary Tom Price...
by Gordon Hensley | Feb 27, 2017 | Campaign 2016, CMS, health care, Health Reform, Medicaid funding, Trump
Among Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s most attractive attributes: his deep understanding of policy detail — especially as it relates to the relationship between the federal and state governments. With “Repeal and Replace” of President...
by Gordon Hensley | Jan 12, 2017 | advocacy, Business, Campaign 2016, CMS, GOP Politics, health care, Health Reform, Pharma, Trump
Putting aside that PEOTUS Donald Trump convincingly crushed his first news conference in months — and did so by demonizing the media in general and Buzzfeed in particular — there was plenty of substantive policy news. Trump’s trashing of the...
by Gordon Hensley | Sep 6, 2016 | advocacy, Business, CMS, health care, Pharma
The only Washington, DC-based advocacy organization representing the interests of the nation’s long term care (LTC) pharmacy sector, the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC), scored a major coup in August when it welcomed a major national provider of LTC...
by Gordon Hensley | Apr 18, 2016 | CMS, health care, Health Reform
President Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act (ACA) — better known as “Obamacare” — has suffered years of negative publicity and controversy, most of it warranted. But one beneficial aspect of the law almost universally missed in the...
by Gordon Hensley | Apr 9, 2014 | CMS, health care, Health Reform
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will today make available billions of dollars in Medicare payments to physicians — an unprecedented disclosure representing a new milestone in price transparency. Generally, the disclosure is being welcomed by...
