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Noteworthy GME Payment Policies and Opportunities for Residency Slots in CMS's FY 2025 IPPS Final Rule

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CMS's FY 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule (Final Rule) finalizes several noteworthy proposals related to graduate medical education (GME) payment opportunities. Below are the takeaways from the...more

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How to Apply and Who's Eligible for Millions of Dollars in Funding Available for New Residency Programs and Expansions Through...

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The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has issued two Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) notices of funding opportunities for the academic year (AY) 2024-2025 and AY 2025-2026. These...more

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While You Were Sleeping: HHS Releases New Guidance on Sensitive Examinations

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"Informed consent" has been described as "a bedrock principle of healthcare in a free society," and if a "patient is denied the ability to exercise or even consider informed consent, the patient's personal liberty suffers."1...more

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Client Alert: New HHS and CMS Guidance on Informed Consent for Sensitive Examinations and Best Practice for the Informed Consent...

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) revised hospital interpretive guidance in the State Operations Manual, Appendix A-Hospitals on April 1, 2024 in response to media stories of nation’s teaching hospitals and...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Preparing a Community Health and Health Equity Strategic Plan

Academic health systems serve a vital role in the health and well-being of the communities they serve. They employ thousands of people and are an economic engine delivering clinical care, the training of health care...more

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Med-Staff Newsletter - February 2023 | VOL 11

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Structure of AMCs - While every AMC is unique, there are some common characteristics that many share: (1) the hospital and school are often tethered together from an organizational, governance and/or legal perspective;...more

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Hot Topics in Health Care January 2023

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Court Remands Remedy for Unlawful 340B Rule to HHS - On January 10, 2023, the DC District Court remanded the issue of how to remedy five years of underpayments to 340B hospitals to the Department of Health and Human...more

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California Passes First State Law Requiring Physicians to Disclose Open Payments Database to Patients

Effective January 1, 2023, the recently enacted California Assembly Bill 1278,requires a physician and surgeon (defined as a physician and surgeon licensed pursuant to the Medical Practice Act or an osteopathic physician and...more

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Service Line Development in Academic Health Systems

An integrated service line organizes multidisciplinary services across the care continuum to serve a defined patient cohort. This patient-centric structure improves patient experience, clinical outcomes and operating...more

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[Webinar] Creating Successful Integrated Service Lines: A Guide for AMCs - September 29th, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm ET

Learn How Interdisciplinary Service Lines Can Enhance the Patient Experience, Drive Clinical Efficiency and Improve Performance at a New Manatt Webinar. An interdisciplinary service line is the organization of...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Sustaining Telehealth Success: Integration Imperatives and Best Practices for Advancing Telehealth in Academic Health Systems

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically and permanently altered the telehealth landscape for teaching hospitals, also known as academic medical centers (AMCs). While many AMCs had begun to offer telehealth services before the...more

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CMS Proposes Important New Updates to the Sunshine Act’s Open Payments Program

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed 2022 Physician Fee Schedule rule (Proposed Rule) on July 13, 2021. Included in the rule are several proposed updates to the CMS Open Payments Program,...more

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[Webinar] Unlocking the Unique Potential of Academic Health Centers - July 29th, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm ET

A New Manatt Webinar Shares a Framework for Cross-Enterprise Alignment and Collaboration to Drive Translational Research Excellence. Academic health centers (AHCs) are differentiated by their tripartite mission focused on...more

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On the Path to Health Justice: Opportunities for Academic Medicine to Accelerate the Equitable Health System of the Future

Introduction and Intent - As the country re-emerges from a pandemic that has had a disproportionate impact on communities of color, academic medical centers (AMCs) are shifting out of crisis-response mode and reflecting on...more

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Consolidated Appropriations Act Includes GME Support Provisions

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The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, creates 1,000 new Medicare-funded graduate medical education (GME) residency positions, expands opportunities for rural residency training, and allows hospitals that have very low...more

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Medicare Spreads Sunshine Act Coverage to New Categories of Payments, Recipients

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On November 15, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") finalized changes to the Open Payments Program as part of the CY 2020 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule....more

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Avoid Rejection: Make Sure Your Medicare Cost Report is Properly Completed

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As the calendar year draws to a close, hospitals with a 9/30 fiscal year end are working intensely on completing their FY 2019 Medicare cost reports. This seemed like a good time to remind everyone of some of CMS’s more...more

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CMS Open Payment Program Data Indicates $6.49 Billion Paid by Manufacturers, GPOs to Physicians and Hospitals in 2014

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CMS recently released data collected through the Open Payments Program in accordance with the Affordable Care Act from applicable manufacturers and group purchasing organizations (GPOs) about payments and other transfers that...more

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Recent PRRB and CMS Administrator Decisions: A Summary for Providers

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In recently released decisions, the PRRB and the CMS Administrator addressed a number of issues of interest to many providers. Short summaries of those decisions are provided below. The PRRB and CMS Administrator post their...more

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