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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

Here Comes the Sun: Final Rules Implementing the Federal Sunshine Law

by Ropes & Gray LLP on 2/20/2013

On February 1, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the long-awaited final rule implementing the Federal Sunshine Law (42 U.S.C. 1320a-7h). (The rule was subsequently published in the Federal...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

CMS Issues Final Physician Payment Sunshine Act Regulations

by Joel R. Levin, Jeffrey Miller, Jerica L. Peters | Perkins Coie on 2/13/2013

On February 1, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the long-awaited final regulations implementing the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (Act or Sunshine Act). The Sunshine Act requires drug,...more

CMS Issues Final Rule to Implement Physician Payments Sunshine Act

by King & Spalding on 2/7/2013

On Friday, February 1, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the highly anticipated final rule to implement the federal Physician Payments Sunshine Act (the “Sunshine Act”). The final rule will...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 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

CMS Announces $532 Medicare Enrollment Fee for 2013

by King & Spalding on 12/11/2012

CMS announced a $532 application fee for calendar year (CY) 2013 for institutional providers that are initially enrolling in the Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP programs, revalidating their Medicare, Medicaid or CHIP enrollment,...more

Who is Committing Healthcare Fraud?

by Michael Volkov on 10/26/2012

The financial recoveries for healthcare fraud are staggering. The Justice Department and Health and Human Services (Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”)) regularly...more

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