Nelson Mullins’ Government Relations practice wants to make you aware of a new tool: the Congressional District Health Dashboard, a database of health-related statistics of voting district populations across the nation for...more
On April 30, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued proposed rules for the Fiscal Year 2015 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System, in which CMS announced several updates, including...more
Each year when CMS publishes its proposed changes to the IPPS Rule, it suggests a number of graduate medical education (GME) and indirect medical education (IME) reforms. This year has been no different. As part of the IPPS...more
In its proposed FY 2015 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) rule, CMS asserts its intent to adopt the most recent labor market area delineations issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which utilize 2010...more
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget recently announced new Metropolitan Areas based on revised standards and 2010 census data. If adopted by Medicare, which they typically are, these changes would affect many aspects of...more