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WASHINGTON, DC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- JUNE 28, 2024: Inside Health Policy delivers reporting you won't find elsewhere — forward-looking news essential for insurers, health care providers, hospitals and other health policy professionals, including pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, lawmakers and other government officials, lawyers, consultants and policy advisers.

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• House GOP Grills CMMI Director On Model Successes, Eyes Cuts
  Committee Republicans questioned the success of the CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and hinted at budget cuts, while demanding a more active role in the center's projects -- a direction CMMI Director Elizabeth Fowler, who defended the center's poor track record of saving money, said she'd be open to.
  
  
• Possible TROA Markup Coming This Summer
  The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act (TROA) could be headed for a markup before August in the House Ways & Means Committee, as the Congressional Budget Office reviews the possible cost savings the bill could bring in a longer time frame if GLP-1 drugs for obesity were covered by Medicare.
  
  
• House Republicans Blast CMMI's CGT, ACE Demoshare
  Top House Energy & Commerce Republicans blasted two key CMS Innovation Center drug pricing demos -- the cell and gene therapy (CGT) model aimed at reducing state Medicaid costs, and the accelerating clinical evidence (ACE) model aimed at limiting CMS coverage of drugs granted accelerated FDA approval -- arguing these initiatives would deter the shift to value-based agreements.
  
  
• W&M Weighs Marking Up Bill Requiring CMS Temporarily Cover Breakthrough Devices
  The full House Ways & Means Committee is considering marking up a long-debated bill that would require CMS to temporarily cover FDA-designated breakthrough devices under Medicare's Durable Medical Equipment fee schedule, according to lobbyists and a congressional advisory reviewed by Inside Health Policy. The advisory does not include a possible date for the markup of the bipartisan bill, which is strongly backed by industry and lobbyists say is garnering additional Democratic support.
  
  
• AHA Wins Privacy Lawsuit, Related Suit Still In Play
  A federal court in Texas dealt HHS a major loss on health information privacy oversight Thursday (June 20) by ruling the department can't ban hospitals from using certain third-party web-tracking technology.