ARNOLD & PORTER KAYE SCHOLER LLP
Lobbying for URAC, INC. · Non-profit accreditation entity for healthcare organizations.
Issues related to health care accreditation, Medicare Advantage plans (including Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans (SNP) reviews), telehealth, and mental health parity. Issues related to pharmacy benefit management services and specialty pharmacies, including accreditations of both, and the Pharmacists Fight Back in Medicare and Medicaid Act (H.R. 6609). Issues related to the implementation and use of artificial intelligence in health care, including the role of accreditation.
Issues related to health care accreditation, telehealth, mental health parity, and Medicare Advantage plans. Issues related to reforms to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), including the role of accreditation. Issues related to pharmacy benefit management services and specialty pharmacies, including accreditations of both, and the Pharmacists Fight Back in Medicare and Medicaid Act (H.R. 6609) and the Pharmacists Fight Back [in Federal Employee Health Benefit Plans Act] (H.R. 6610). Issues related to the implementation and use of artificial intelligence in health care, including the role of accreditation.
Issues related to telehealth accreditation, including congressional encouragement of HHS and HRSA to utilize telehealth accreditation to ensure high quality care for patients.