Regulation
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- Hospital price transparency rules tightened, but rate comparisons remain hard
CMS revisions that took effect in January 2026 push hospitals to publish negotiated rates as dollar figures rather than percentages or formulas, with enforcement starting in April. A Peterson-KFF...
- SEC moves to restore fixed-income cross trading for registered funds
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed amendments to Rule 17a-7 under the Investment Company Act, which would let registered funds once again cross trade most fixed-income securities...
- Medicare Part D drug plan choices shrink again for 2027 as premiums diverge sharply
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released its 2027 Medicare Part D plan data, and a KFF analysis finds the number of stand-alone prescription drug plans available to the average...
- SEC sues fund adviser Meyer Global Management over pre-IPO fraud schemes
The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed suit against Meyer Global Management LLC and its chief executive, Owen E.H. Meyer, alleging a series of fraudulent schemes targeting retail...
- CMS and 37 States Pledge to Tie Medicaid Quality to Patient Outcomes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is launching a voluntary initiative with 37 state partners to shift Medicaid and CHIP quality measurement away from process compliance and toward...
- Census Bureau proposes dropping race data and shrinking immigrant count for 2030
A September 2026 proposed rule would remove race and ethnicity questions from the decennial census for the first time since 1790 and redefine residency to exclude millions of noncitizen immigrants...
- Lucid pushes for full Fifth Circuit rehearing on Texas direct-sales ban
Lucid Group has asked the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear its challenge to Texas's prohibition on manufacturer-direct vehicle sales, after a three-judge panel unanimously upheld the...
- TrumpRx drug prices beat other wealthy nations on fewer than half of listed drugs, KFF finds
A new KFF analysis of 32 brand-name drugs listed on the TrumpRx website finds that American consumers are roughly as likely to pay more for those drugs as to pay less, compared with publicly...
- Canada's Privacy Commissioner probes IDScan over breach of 153 million driver's license scans
Canada's Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne has opened a formal investigation into identity verification company IDScan.net following a breach that exposed scans of 153 million people's...
- CMS Freezes New Agent Registrations for 2027; NAIFA Pushes Back
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has imposed an immediate moratorium on new agent and broker registrations for Plan Year 2027, citing concentrated fraud in the Affordable Care Act...
- KFF: $50B Rural Health Fund Covers a Fraction of $137B Rural Medicaid Cut
The Rural Health Transformation Program, created by the July 2025 reconciliation law, will distribute $50 billion in state grants over five years, but KFF analysis puts projected rural Medicaid...
- House Passes GUARD Act 414-7 to Combat Elder Financial Fraud
The House approved H.R. 2978, the Guarding Unprotected Aging Retirees from Deception Act, by a near-unanimous 414-7 margin. The bill targets elder financial fraud, scams, and cryptocurrency-based...
- Second Circuit rules No Surprises Act bars private lawsuits over billing awards
The Second Circuit has held that the No Surprises Act does not create a private right of action to enforce out-of-network billing dispute resolution awards. The ruling, reported by Law360...
- Ninth Circuit asks California Supreme Court to rule on USAA rank-based auto pricing
A federal appeals court has certified two questions to the California Supreme Court over USAA's practice of placing military drivers into different affiliates by rank, with higher-ranking members...
- Ryan files protest after Florida commercial clearinghouse contract goes to Brown & Brown unit
Ryan Specialty has notified Citizens Property Insurance that it intends to protest the award of Florida's new commercial policy clearinghouse contract to Bridge Specialty Wholesale, a Brown &...