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CMS Announces $1 Billion in Funding for Innovation Grants

by King & Spalding on 5/21/2013

On May 15, 2013, CMS released a funding opportunity announcement for round two of the Health Care Innovation Awards. The grants are administered by the CMS Innovation Center, which is authorized by the Affordable Care Act to...more

Health Care Reform Implementation Update - May 6, 2013

by Mark Alderman | Cozen O'Connor on 5/7/2013

Last week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued new proposed regulations on FY 2014 payment updates and regulatory policy changes for inpatient and long term care hospitals, skilled nursing facilitates,...more

CMS Issues Final Rule for Implementing Sunshine Act

by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 2/14/2013

On February 8, 2013, 16 months after the statutory deadline, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published in the Federal Register the final regulation implementing the physician payment transparency...more

New Guidance Addresses Individual Shared Responsibility Payments and Premium Tax Credits

by Kurt Anderson, Brian M. Pinheiro | Ballard Spahr LLP on 2/6/2013

The IRS and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have issued two important pieces of guidance under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act regarding the responsibilities imposed on individuals to...more

Health Care Reform Implementation Update - February 4, 2013

by Mark Alderman | Cozen O'Connor on 2/4/2013

Several agency actions on the Affordable Care Act out of HHS and Treasury last week include proposed regulations detailing exemptions from the shared responsibility tax, such as an exemption for those who would qualify for...more

CMS Proposes Rule to Increase Medicaid Cost-Sharing

by King & Spalding on 1/31/2013

On January 22, 2013, CMS published a proposed rule in the Federal Register that would allow states to increase cost-sharing for Medicaid beneficiaries. Specifically, for individuals with incomes below 100% of the federal...more

HHS Releases Proposed Application Process for Affordable Insurance Programs

by Jean C. Hemphill | Ballard Spahr LLP on 1/30/2013

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released proposed rules designed to create a single, streamlined application process for several government health insurance programs....more

Health Care Reform Implementation Update - January 23, 2013

by Mark Alderman | Cozen O'Connor on 1/23/2013

In the past week, the health insurance exchanges were rebranded as “health insurance marketplaces;” HHS extended the deadline for states to opt into administering their own marketplaces and announced $1.5 billion in new...more

Health Care Reform Update: Many Self-Insured Plans Subject to New Annual Fees This Year

by Mark Jones, Justin Krawitz | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 1/17/2013

New regulations have been issued under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”) implementing annual fees and reporting requirements on self-insured health plans and indirectly on fully insured plans. The...more

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