Podcast: What Is the Future of the Acute Care Hospital Industry? - Diagnosing Health Care
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. Contested Case: AL2023-022, Affinity Orthopaedic ASC, LLC, Jefferson County, AL: Proposes to develop an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) concentrating on orthopaedic surgery on the...more
On August 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule to increase Medicare inpatient prospective payment system rates for certain acute care hospitals by a net 2.9% in fiscal year 2025, compared...more
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. Project Modification Request - AL2022-009, East Alabama Health Care Authority d/b/a East Alabama Medical Center (EAMC), Lee County, AL: The project modification request involves a...more
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. AL2023-014, Medplex Outpatient Surgery Center, Ltd., Hoover, AL: Proposes to relocate the existing facility by constructing a new ambulatory surgery center (ASC) approximately two (2)...more
Congress is officially in recess for the month of August and will return after Labor Day. On the regulatory front, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final fiscal year (FY) 2024 Inpatient...more
As we reported last month, the draft 2024 State Medical Facilities Plan (SMFP) was released on July 3, 2023. The SMFP is North Carolina’s key health planning document in which the State publishes need determinations for...more
At the onset of the COVID-19 PHE, CMS was permitted to issue several temporary emergency statutory and regulatory waivers to help providers appropriately respond to the pandemic. On May 1, 2023, the Secretary released a memo...more
Post-acute and long term care providers have endured a state of distress since March 2020, not only from the challenges created by the COVID-19 virus, but also from ever-increasing regulatory compliance burdens, changes in...more
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. AL2022-010, Hand in Hand Therapy & Tutoring, LLC, Fairhope, AL: Proposes to add speech therapy services at an already existing occupational therapy clinic. Opposition: None. Approved. ...more
Kindred Healthcare. On July 2, 2018, Humana Inc. and private equity firms TPG Capital (TPG), and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (Welsh) (collectively referred to as the Consortium) issued a press release announcing the...more
This past August, the Massachusetts Senate and the Millbank Memorial Fund Healthcare Working Group held three roundtable discussions geared towards finding solutions to rising healthcare costs and providing patients with more...more
Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule (Final Rule) modifying the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective...more
Although healthcare properties have historically provided the smallest share of collateral used for backing CMBS transactions (currently only 0.47%), according to the most recent report from Moody’s Investors Service,...more