In regulations published on April 16, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued two new documents containing guidance primarily on the Medicare Advantage (MA) program and on the Medicare prescription...more
Summer was no vacation for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The agency released a series of significant rules that signal the nature and pace of CMS Medicare payment and policy changes for hospitals and...more
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Value-Based Payments
The use of efficiencies as a defense remains without a firm footing in law when a transaction has demonstrable and substantial anticompetitive effects.
In Rob Reiner’s classic fantasy adventure The Princess Bride,...more
On January 12, 2017, less than a week before the official transition from one administration to the next, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a rule finalizing...more