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The Expiration of the Medicare Telehealth Flexibilities
This week in the Breakroom, Rachel Stauffer joins Erin Fuller to discuss the expiration of the Medicare fee-for-service telehealth flexibilities and u...
Day 13 of shutdown
Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Julia Grabo to discuss the current state of the government shutdown.
Administration Takes Action on Drug Pricing Action
Amy Kelbick and Simeon Niles join Julia Grabo to discuss the implementation of President Trump’s most-favored nation drug pricing executive order, inc...
Government Shutdown
In this week’s Healthcare Preview, Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Maddie News to discuss the government shutdown, what the Senate and House ar...
The Government is Officially Shutdown. What Happens Now?
This week in the Breakroom, Jeff Davis and Amy Kelbick join Erin Fuller to discuss what we can expect from Congress and the Department of Health and H...
Shutdown Discussions
In this week’s Healthcare Preview, Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Maddie News to discuss where we are at with the looming government funding d...
MA and Part D Rulemaking
Lynn Nonnemaker joins Julia Grabo to discuss what Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D proposals have been finalized, and, more importantly, which ones...
The Race to Fund the Government
In this week’s Healthcare Preview, Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Erin Fuller to discuss where Congress is at in their battle to fund the gove...
MAHA Strategy Report
This week in the Breakroom, Rachel Stauffer and Amy Kelbick join Erin Fuller for a deep dive into the MAHA Commission's "Make Our Children Healthy Aga...
Introducing Erin Fuller
On this special edition of the breakroom, Maddie News interviews a new member of the McDermott+ team, Erin Fuller, who will become a new host of our w...
Clock Is Ticking on Government Funding
In this week's Healthcare Preview, Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Maddie News to discuss what's going on in Congress this week, from governmen...
Spring 2025 Unified Agenda
This week in the Breakroom, Jeffrey Davis joins Julia Grabo to discuss the Spring 2025 Unified Agenda and what it might tell us about the Trump admini...
Government Funding and Vaccines
In this week’s Healthcare Preview, Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Maddie News to discuss what options Congress may be considering to fund the...
Status Update on FY2026 HHS Appropriations
This week in the Breakroom, Jeffrey Davis and Rachel Stauffer join Maddie News to discuss progress on HHS appropriations and what’s to come.
Congress is Back.
Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Julia Grabo to discuss how the forthcoming government funding fight could play out.
Digital Health Provisions in the 2026 Physician Fee Schedule
This week in the Breakroom, Rachel Stauffer and Rachel Hollander join Maddie News to take a deep dive into the digital health and telehealth proposals...
August Recess Approaches
Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Julia Grabo to reflect on the year so far and look into their crystal ball for August recess and beyond.
2026 Proposed Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System
Deborah Godes and Marla Kugel join Julia Grabo to discuss the major policies proposed in the recently released calendar year 2026 Medicare Hospital Ou...
August Recess Nears
In this week’s Healthcare Preview, Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Maddie News to discuss the upcoming August recess and how that is contributi...
2026 Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
This week in the Breakroom, Jeffrey Davis and Rachel Hollander join Maddie News to break down major payment policies in the 2026 Medicare Physician Fe...
Recissions Deadline Approaches
The deadline to pass the White House’s recissions package is this week. Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Julia Grabo to discuss the package’s st...
HDHP Telehealth Safe Harbor Permanency
Sarah Raaii and Rachel Stauffer join Julia Grabo to discuss a key virtual care provision from the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, includin...
What Comes After Reconciliation?
In this week’s Healthcare Preview, Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Maddie News to discuss what Congress will be focusing on after the passage o...
House Begins Reconciliation Reconsideration
This week in the Breakroom, Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Maddie News to recap the Senate’s passage of the reconciliation package and preview...
Senate Considers Reconciliation Package
In this week’s Healthcare Preview, Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Maddie News to discuss reconciliation updates from the weekend and what coul...
Prior Authorization Announcement
This week in the Breakroom, Lynn Nonnemaker joins Maddie News to discuss the recent announcement by health insurers to streamline the prior authorizat...
Senate Continues Reconciliation Work
Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Julia Grabo to discuss where the Senate is on reconciliation ahead of the quickly approaching, self-imposed Jul...
Senate Finance Committee Releases Reconciliation Language
Debbie Curtis, Rodney Whitlock, and Maddie News join Julia Grabo to discuss how the recently released Senate Finance Committee reconciliation language...
Senate Finance Reconciliation Text
In this week’s Healthcare Preview, Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Maddie News to discuss the expected release of Senate Finance Committee reco...
HHS Budget in Brief and Congressional Appropriations
his week in the Breakroom, Jeff Davis and Rachel Stauffer join Maddie News to discuss HHS’ recently released budget in brief for 2026 and how it has j...
Reconciliation, Recissions, and Appropriations
Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Julia Grabo to discuss the busy week ahead of Congress, including where they are in the reconciliation, recissi...
Introducing Marla Kugel
July is anticipated to be a busy rulemaking month, and Marla Kugel has joined M+ as a Senior Director just in time. In this episode of the breakroom,...
Reconciliation in the Senate
In this week’s Healthcare Preview, Debbie Curtis joins Maddie News to discuss forthcoming CBO scores and what the Senate margin means for ongoing reco...
State of Play on Prescription Drug Pricing
This week in the Breakroom, Amy Kelbick joins Maddie News to discuss recent actions by the Trump Administration and Congress on lowering the cost of p...
House Passes Reconciliation
Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Julia Grabo to discuss what we know (and don’t know) about the House-passed reconciliation package and what we...
CMS Innovation Center’s New Strategy
Simeon Niles joins Julia Grabo to discuss the new direction of the CMS Innovation Center and how stakeholders can prepare to participate.
Reconciliation Update: Now What?
Rodney Whitlock and Debbie Curtis join Julia Grabo to discuss what happened over the weekend with the House’s budget reconciliation bill and what to p...
Reconciliation Recap
This week in the Breakroom, Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Maddie News to recap this week’s progress in the House on reconciliation and discus...
House Energy and Commerce Committee Releases Reconciliation Text
In this week’s Healthcare Preview, Debbie Curtis and Rodney Whitlock join Maddie News to discuss the released text of the House Energy and Commerce Co...
FY 2026 “Skinny” President’s Budget
Jeff Davis joins Julia Grabo to discuss the President’s “skinny” budget request and what it tells us (or doesn’t tell us) about the restructuring at t...