Diving into the FY26 appropriations bill and CMS’s new ACCESS Model
Katie Gilfillan discusses a noteworthy new payment model from CMS, and Nick and Shawn review of key healthcare aspects of the FY26 budget bill.
Hospitals brace for looming federal cuts in Medicaid and elsewhere
The historic healthcare policy changes — and associated Medicaid cuts — in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act have left it to the states to figure out how to keep their residents insured and healthy with $1 trillion less in federal funding. With impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or OBBBA, including a…