WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The American Association of Post-Acute Care Nursing, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, has submitted a public comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the proposed Fiscal Year 2027 updates to the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment System (PPS), Quality Reporting Program (QRP), and Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program. The letter addresses concerns about payment methodologies, coding classifications, quality measure pro more ST

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, submitted a public comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) concerning the Medicare Program's Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Fiscal Year 2027 and updates to the IRF Quality Reporting Program. The organization highlighted concerns about CMS's proposed one-hour initial interdisciplinary team (IDT) meeting intended to cover about twelve pati more ST

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, based in Chicago, Illinois, submitted a public comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding the Fiscal Year 2027 Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility prospective payment system proposed rule. The letter focuses on the agency's request for information on potential quality measure concepts for the IRF Quality Reporting Program (QRP), particularly an advance care planning (ACP) measure. The lett more ST

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Americans for Tax Reform posted the following commentary on June 4, 2026, by John Kartch: * * * Examples of Good News Arising from Big Beautiful Bill's Full Business Expensing Provisions In addition to across-the-board tax cuts for households, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed by President Trump on July 4 provides full business expensing for American businesses. In their own words, U.S. employers describe the benefits of the expensing provisions in the bill: Beauty more PR

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Marla J. Kreindler, a partner at Morgan Lewis and Bockius LLP, Chicago, Illinois, submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Department of Labor on behalf of an unspecified client supporting the agency's proposed fiduciary-duty framework for selecting investment alternatives in defined-contribution retirement plans while urging clarifications to ensure plan fiduciaries retain flexibility when evaluating alternative assets, managed accounts and professionally managed inve more ST

CHICAGO, Illinois, June 6 -- The University of Chicago posted the following news: * * * With a 'boundless love of knowledge,' UChicago's Class of 2026 called to boldly face the future * Nearly four years ago, the newest members of the University of Chicago community marched through Cobb Gate to the sound of bagpipes, processing through a campus completely unknown to most of them. On June 6, they walked once more through Cobb Gate and gathered again, this time as graduates of the Class of 20 more PR