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HRSA Initiates Audits and Requires Return of Provider Relief Funds

Throughout the course of the pandemic, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) distributed $178 billion in Provider Relief Funds (PRF) to hospitals and health care providers.  The Public Health Emergency has...more

Podcast: Chevron Deference: Is It Time for Change? - Diagnosing Health Care [Video]

This term, the Supreme Court of the United States is set to rule in a Medicare reimbursement case that has sparked a fresh look at the historical deference often granted to agencies and whether it should remain, be modified,...more

HHS Proposes to Repeal Rules on Guidance Documents

On October 20, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a proposed rule that would repeal regulations issued in the twilight of the Trump administration that limited HHS’s use of guidance...more

District Court Invalidates Medicare GME Regulation and Orders CMS to Recalculate Hospitals’ Medicare Reimbursement

Teaching hospitals should find that their Medicare reimbursement for training physicians will be a little sweeter thanks to a decision by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Milton S. Hershey...more

CMS Proposes to Expand the Scope of Medicare Coverage Determinations

On September 1, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a proposed rule that would, for the first time, establish formal criteria to define the “reasonable and necessary” standard for Medicare...more

Supreme Court Expands the Scope of Public Participation in Medicare Policymaking

On June 3, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Azar v. Allina Health Services that the Medicare statute requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) to engage in public notice-and-comment rulemaking...more

CMS Publishes Additional (but Limited) Guidance on the Coverage with Evidence Development Process

On November 20, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published its latest round of guidance on its Coverage with Evidence Development (“CED”) policy for selected items and services under the Medicare...more

CMS Requests Comments on the Dispute Resolution Process Associated with the Physician Payment Sunshine Act

On May 5, 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") announced an opportunity to submit comments on the dispute resolution and correction procedures proposed in the final rule on the Open Payments reporting...more

D.C. Circuit Requires Greater Disclosure of Changes in Medicare Regulations

The rulemaking process often accommodates a variety of interests, including the preference of regulatory agencies to maintain some flexibility and the rights of interested parties to participate in the regulatory process. On...more

Supreme Court Opinion in Sebelius v. Auburn Regional Medical Center Rejects a Challenge by Hospitals to Medicare's SSI Fraction...

A unanimous Supreme Court has issued its opinion in Sebelius v. Auburn Regional Medical Center, No. 11-1231 (Jan. 22, 2013), rejecting a challenge by hospitals to Medicare's Supplemental Security Income ("SSI") fraction...more

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