Month: September 2026

Policy Prescriptions Episode 5: The Doctor Advising HHS on America’s Healthcare Future | Dr. Clive Fields

Dr. Clive Fields — co-founder of VillageMD and Chair of the MAHA workgroup on the HHS/CMS Healthcare Advisory Committee — joins the Zen Lobbyist, Gary Jacobs and Tom Koutsoumpas, Founder and President of Healthsperien, to go inside the commission shaping U.S. healthcare policy. They cover the structure of the 16-member advisory committee, why end-of-life conversations fail patients, the case for the collaborative care model in mental health, rural healthcare access, deprescribing, and what it will take to scale value-based primary care nationally.

Modernizing the Medicare Hospice Benefit: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

CMS recently released a letter to State Medicaid Directors that provides implementation guidance for the requirement that states redetermine eligibility for Medicaid expansion adults every six months instead of annually, beginning in 2027.