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We encourage all CKCC Model participants to review these updates carefully and take necessary actions to ensure compliance with the deadlines for KCE CKCC Model Performance Year 2024 Risk Option selections....more
Fair market value (FMV) is a pinnacle issue with respect to healthcare regulatory compliance and compensation agreements. This article will analyze the issues related to an FMV defensibility analysis of compensation...more
Correction to our January 31, 2023 newsletter article, “Dialysis Provider Satellite Healthcare Reports Data Breach Affecting Nearly 100k Patients”: Media Statement, Satellite Healthcare - In January 2023, Satellite...more
On November 1, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Calendar Year 2023 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, which includes changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), the nation's...more
On July 7, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Calendar Year (CY) 2023 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule that includes changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) to advance...more
Editor’s Note: Seeking methods to better understand and control healthcare costs, many states are taking a careful look at a state-defined spending target, or “benchmarking” model, that originated in Massachusetts and has...more
State interest in healthcare cost containment has grown dramatically since Massachusetts enacted the nation’s first cost benchmarking program in 2012. At that time, most states were focused on coverage expansion through the...more
Just before the holidays, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a final rule (“Final Rule”) that will overhaul the Medicare Shared Savings Program (“MSSP”). As of January 2018, the MSSP included 561...more
On August 17, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) officially published a proposed rule (“Proposed Rule”) in the Federal Register that would significantly alter the Medicare Shared Savings Program...more
On August 9, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would redesign the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). The proposed changes would accelerate the risks associated with...more
On August 9, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule to overhaul the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). The proposal, titled “Pathways to Success,” would make significant changes...more
On Thursday, August 9, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a Proposed Rule (the “Proposed Rule”) regarding the Medicare Shared Savings Program (“MSSP”) for Accountable Care Organizations...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently proposed a major redesign of its Medicare Shared Savings Program (“MSSP”) under a new plan it calls “Pathways to Success.” In this Part I of a two-part series on...more
CMS Releases 2017 Final Rule For ESRD Prospective Payment System – On October 28, 2016, CMS released the final rule for the End-Stage Renal Disease (ERSD) Prospective Payment System (PPS) that updates and makes revisions to...more
On June 6, 2016, CMS issued a final rule (Final Rule) establishing a phased approach for incorporating regional FFS expenditures into calculations for resetting, adjusting, and updating Accountable Care Organizations’ (ACOs’)...more
On February 3, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a new proposed rule that makes a number of revisions to the Medicare Shared Savings Program (“MSSP”). Several of the proposed changes create...more
The Medicare Shared Savings Program provides financial rewards to Accountable Care Organizations (ACO’s) that successfully manage overall health care costs for a defined population of beneficiaries while meeting quality of...more
- CMS Adopts Change to Benchmark and Shift in Enforcement - CMS Explains Reasoning Behind 0.2% Payment Reduction CMS has published discussions of the 2-midnight rule in two recent Federal Register publications. In the...more
The most recent Shared Savings Program final rule, published in the Federal Register on June 9, 2015, finalizes a number of the revisions to the original November 2011 final rule that CMS proposed on December 8, 2014. In...more