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Provider-Based Status Post-BBA: CMS Offers Limited Answers, Requests More Feedback

For those in the hospital industry hoping for additional clarity regarding the operation and billing of provider-based departments (PBDs), the CY 2017 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Proposed Rule provides some...more

Medicaid and CHIP Managed Care Final Rule: It’s All About Consistency

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued a 1,425-page regulation (Rule) on managed care in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), dubbed the first overhaul of these regulations...more

The 2017 Exchange Regulations: Network Adequacy Challenges Remain

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued the final 2017 Benefit and Payment Parameters Rule (Final Rule) and concurrently released a final 2017 Letter to Issuers (Letter to Issuers) in the...more

King v. Burwell: “Thy name is an opinion on the Affordable Care Act”

The U.S. Supreme Court in King v. Burwell, upheld the availability of subsidies to individuals who purchase health insurance on either a state or federal Exchange. While the Court’s 6-3 decision is being hailed politically as...more

Medicaid Managed Care Proposed Rules: The Intersection of Private Insurance and Government Programs

Approximately a quarter of all Medicaid expenditures is spent on the more than half of all beneficiaries (approximately 39 million by 2011 figures cited in the 2014 MACPAC Report) currently accessing part or all of their...more

Children’s Hospitals Obtain Temporary Injunction Against CMS

Challenging actions by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Administrative Procedures Act (APA), Texas Children’s Hospital and Seattle Children’s Hospital obtained a preliminary injunction that enjoins...more

Medicaid ACOs: States’ Answer to Escalating Costs?

States increasingly are experimenting with the use of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in their Medicaid programs as a possible avenue to curb the escalating costs of providing care to expanding Medicaid populations....more

The Sliding Scale of Health Coverage: Finding the Intersection of Cost, Access and Quality

While not a new concept, the use of narrow networks has become a lightning rod for the controversy surrounding qualified health plans (QHPs) offered on the insurance exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and...more

Is It a Violation to Help?

In a May 21, 2014, letter to the President of the American Hospital Association (AHA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius confirmed HHS’s position that private, not-for-profit...more

Marketing to Medicaid Beneficiaries: Texas Proposed Rule Highlights Pitfalls for Providers

Earlier this month, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (Commission) released a proposed rule, 1 TAC § 354.1452 that prohibits certain marketing activity by Medicaid and CHIP providers. The proposed rule has been...more

HHS's Mixed Messages: Identifying a Federal Healthcare Program When You See It

Recent seemingly contrary determinations by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have fueled industry speculation regarding whether qualified health plans (QHPs) available on the health insurance exchanges...more

CMS Issues Final Rule Outlining Medicaid DSH Payment Reductions

CMS recently released the final rule confirming its methodology for carrying out reductions to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments for fiscal year (FY) 2014 and FY 2015. DSH payments, which go to hospitals...more

Paying for Family Vacations With NIH Funds Triggers FCA Lawsuit and Settlement

Northwestern University will pay $2.93 million to settle a federal False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit brought by a former employee who alleged Northwestern allowed a researcher to submit false claims under certain cancer research...more

Exclusions: OIG Offers Relationship Counseling to Providers

On May 8, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an updated Special Advisory Bulletin on the Effect of Exclusion from Participation in Federal Health Care Programs...more

OIG Updates Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol

On April 17, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a revised Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol (SDP) that clarifies the process for healthcare providers, suppliers...more

#YouveBeenServed

A new bill filed by Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, if passed, would allow Texas courts the authority to prescribe service of citation through a social media site, such as Twitter or Facebook, in the absence of other more...more

3/15/2013  /  Service of Process , Social Media

CMS Provides Guidance For Amending Patient Medical Records

CMS recently released a transmittal providing instructions to contractors on acceptable methods for providers to amend, correct and incorporate delayed entries into a patient medical record. ...more

Health Law Update — January 10, 2013

In This Issue: - Healthcare Provisions in the American Taxpayer Relief Act - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly - American Taxpayer Relief Act Amends Overpayment Recovery Time Limits - OIG Advisory Opinion Sheds...more

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