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Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Capital loss carryback (No Bills yet) Interchange fee and application to debit card for FSA business; HR 2010/S. 1089 (eaxpand use of HSAs); HR 605/S. 312 (Repeal restriction on use of HSA/FSA for OTC Drugs).

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Executive Office of the President (EOP)

Bills named: H.R. 605 (112th), H.R. 2010 (112th), S. 312 (112th), S. 1089 (112th)

Retirement RET

Retiree health insurance (no bills yet); Seek clarification from CCIIO on application of ACA to Retiree- Only health plans.

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Executive Office of the President (EOP); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); SENATE

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

S. 31 and S. 44 (Allow HHS to directly negotiate drug prices); S. 560 and HR 999 (Establishes Medicare-run Part D PDP nationwide); Proposals to extend the "Doc Fix" beyond 12/31/ 2011. Medicaid Maintenance of Effort repeal (No Bill Number); Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment period (No Bill Number); S. 848 (Disclosure of Medicare provider data); HR 1031 (Medicaid).

Contacted: Executive Office of the President (EOP); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Bills named: H.R. 999 (112th), S. 31 (112th), S. 560 (112th), S. 848 (112th), S. 44 (112th), H.R. 1031 (112th)

Insurance INS

HR 1050 (allows for Association Health Plans free from state mandated benefits); HR 346 (allows for national insurance marketplace via cross-state purchsing of coverage); HR 416/S. 137 (mechanism for HHS/states to correct excessive insurance rates); HR 605 (repeal FSA/HSA OTC restriction); S. 312 (Repeals OTC restriction); HR 2010/S. 1089 (expand use of HSAs); HR 1206 (exclude Commissions from MLR calculation). HR 1050 (Creates AHPs-Association Health Plans); HR 371 (Cross-state selling).

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Executive Office of the President (EOP); SENATE

Bills named: S. 312 (112th), S. 137 (112th), H.R. 605 (112th), H.R. 346 (112th), H.R. 1050 (112th), H.R. 371 (112th), H.R. 2010 (112th), S. 1089 (112th), H.R. 416 (112th), H.R. 1206 (112th)

Health Issues HCR

HR 2 (repeal ACA); HR 2 (De-fund ACA); HR 1010 (directs SCOTUS to expedite appeal on Constitutionality of ACA); H. Res. 9 (Instructs Committees to develop proposals as alternatives to ACA); HR 4 (repeal 1099 provision of ACA); HR 21/S. 19 (repeal ACA's individual mandate); H. J. Res 19 (Expression of disapproval of HHS Regulation on MLR); HR 1206 (Exclude broker remuneration from MLR); S. 244 ( allows states to opt out ACA provisions per state-passed legislation); HR 2077 (MLR repeal) S. 248 (accelerates from 2017 to 2014 the right of states to seek federal waiver from specified provisions of ACA); S. 312/HR 605 (repeals ACA provision barring use of FSA/HSA money for OTC medications); HR 1150 (amends McCarran-Ferguson); HR 979 (imposes new requirements on PBMs and insurers who participate in FEHBP); S. 27 (prohibits settlement of patent infringement cases which results in delay of generics coming to market); S. 493 (Small Business bill). HR 1839 (Antitrust exemption for community pharmacists); S. 1058/HR 1971 (Forced disclosure of PBM proprietary pricing and other competitive information); HR 371 (Health Choice Act); HR 2011 (Repeal MLR); HR 1370 (Repeal ACA annual fee in insurers)

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Executive Office of the President (EOP); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Bills named: S. 493 (112th), H.R. 2077 (112th), H.R. 1839 (112th), H.R. 979 (112th), H.R. 1010 (112th), H.R. 2 (112th), H.R. 21 (112th), H.R. 605 (112th), S. 19 (112th), H.R. 371 (112th), H.R. 4 (112th), H.R. 1206 (112th), H.R. 1150 (112th), S. 248 (112th), H.R. 2011 (112th), S. 27 (112th), S. 312 (112th), H.J.Res. 19 (112th), S. 1058 (112th), H.R. 1370 (112th), S. 244 (112th), H.Res. 9 (112th), H.R. 1971 (112th)

Torts TOR

HR 5 (Medical Malpractice Liability Reform)

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Executive Office of the President (EOP); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)

Bills named: H.R. 5 (112th)