WASHINGTON, June 16 -- The Alliance on Hospital Reimbursement, represented by Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman P.C., Indianapolis, Indiana, submitted a public comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The Alliance expressed concerns over CMS's Fiscal Year 2027 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) proposed rule and related policies affecting hospital reimbursements and audit procedures. Among the primary issues raised, the Alliance objected to recent changes in the S-10 audit protocols that have  more ST

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- AntoZero, a neurotoxicology company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) criticizing proposed revisions to the OMB Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance. The letter strongly opposes provisions that would prioritize political judgment over scientific merit in federal research funding, destabilize long-term research commitments, introduce administrative burdens, and restrict international collaborations. The company warns that the ru more ST

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Child Care Associates, a nonprofit early childhood organization headquartered in Arlington, Texas, submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regarding the Notice of Proposed Rule Making entitled "Restoring Flexibility to Support Head Start Program Access." The letter highlights the importance of local flexibility in compensation, enrollment, and funding to maintain high-quality services and workforce stability in Head Start and Early Head Start programs. The organization emphas more ST

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Community Action Pioneer Valley Head Start and Early Learning Programs, Springfield, Massachusetts, expressed concerns to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regarding workforce compensation and stability in the Head Start program. The organization highlighted the pressing need for increased wages and enhanced benefits for Head Start staff in response to the NPRM titled "Restoring Flexibility to Support Head Start Program Access." The organization emphasized the stark wage disparities between Head Start educ more ST

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- DesignLaw Group, North Bethesda, Maryland, has submitted a public comment letter to the Patent and Trademark Office advocating for the U.S. to accede to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Riyadh Design Law Treaty (RDLT) without any reservations. The letter, addressed to the USPTO's Office of Policy and International Affairs, supports US accession and offers a series of recommendations aimed at aligning the US design protection framework with the objectives of the treaty while improving current practices f more ST

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Elizabeth A. Elias, an attorney with Hall, Render, Killian, Heath and Lyman P.C., Indianapolis, Indiana, submitted a public comment letter on behalf of approximately 300 hospitals to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services urging the agency to correct what the firm describes as a longstanding error in calculating the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system standardized amount used to determine hospital reimbursement rates. The firm represents approximately 300 hospitals nationwide and contends that CMS has f more ST

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Lotte Chemical California Inc., Torrance, has submitted a public comment letter to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative addressing potential safeguard measures under Section 201 concerning quartz surface products (QSP). The letter responds to remedy proposals by the Quartz Manufacturing Alliance of America and extensive comments from more than 100 U.S. fabricators opposing broad safeguard actions. In its comments, Lotte Chemical California criticizes the proposed broad global safeguard recommended by the United St more ST

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Madhav Surfaces FZE, a quartz surface products producer based in Sohar, Oman, and represented by Crowell & Moring LLP, submitted a public comment letter to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative arguing that Oman-origin quartz surface products should be excluded from any safeguard remedy arising from Investigation No. TA-201-79 concerning quartz surface products. Madhav's submission responds directly to the Quartz Manufacturing Alliance of America's proposed remedy, which focuses heavily on concerns related to Chine more ST

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- The Money Services Business Association, Arlington, Virginia, submitted a public comment letter to the Internal Revenue Service addressing concerns about the proposed regulations implementing the excise tax on remittance transfers under section 4475 of the Internal Revenue Code. The MSBA represents the non-bank money services industry, including licensed money transmitters and various financial services firms facilitating cross-border payments for consumers and small businesses. In its comments on the notice of proposed  more ST

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- The National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, has submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding proposed changes to the Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System for Fiscal Year 2028. NCCN advocates for enhancements that prioritize advanced care planning, nutritional screening, electronic prior authorization improvements, and revisions to the new technology add-on payment  more ST

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- The Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regarding proposed revisions to the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants affecting crude oil and natural gas production and transmission facilities. The letter addresses the EPA's recent proposal to review and reconsider these standards under the Clean Air Act Section 112(d)(6). The alliance, representing a large portion of Oklahoma's oil and gas industry, supports finalizin more ST

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- The Save Quartz Jobs Coalition has submitted a rebuttal to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative concerning potential safeguard measures on quartz surface products. The coalition is urging the U.S. Trade Policy Staff Committee and the President to reject trade-restrictive remedies, cautioning that such measures would inflict widespread harm on the broader U.S. quartz industry, particularly fabricators and downstream businesses across the country. The letter contends that the proposed safeguard measures, advocated p more ST

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- The Southern Environmental Law Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has sought an extension from the Office of Management and Budget to extend the public comment period for the proposed rule on Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The federal agency initiated a 45-day comment window for this over 400-page rulemaking set to impact grant administration across 41 federal departments. The letter emphasizes that the rule touches nearly every aspect of federal grantmaking, with more than 495,000 grants awarded totaling more ST

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- The Suburban Hospital Alliance of New York State submitted a public comment letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding the agency's proposed hospital inpatient prospective payment system rule for fiscal year 2027. The Alliance raised concerns about the proposed 3.2 percent market basket update amid rising inflationary pressures affecting labor, pharmaceutical, energy, and supply costs, which have markedly outpaced reimbursement increases. The organization highlighted that total labor expenses rose more ST