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2024 Health Care Predictions

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Happy 2024!  The entire Saul Ewing Health Law Practice Group wishes you and yours a healthy and prosperous new year and successful (and compliant) activities in the health care delivery system this year and beyond....more

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Healthcare Authority Newsletter - January 2024 #1

News Briefs - FDA Gives First Approval of Mass Canadian Drug Imports - The Food and Drug Administration has allowed Florida to import millions of dollars' worth of medications from Canada at far lower prices than in the...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: December 8, 2023

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Senate Finance Committee Examines Drug Shortages. The hearing addressed concerns and explored potential solutions related to drug shortages in the United States, particularly focusing on essential medications. The hearing...more

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Previewing the Final Hospital Outpatient Medicare Payment Reg

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Sharpen your pencils and locate your reading glasses: the final Medicare payment regulations for calendar year (CY) 2024 will be released within the next week. In the last Regs & Eggs blog post, I discussed a major issue...more

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CMS Issues Civil Monetary Penalties for Hospital Price Transparency Non-Compliance

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Last month, CMS issued three civil monetary penalty (CMP) notices for violations of the hospital price transparency regulations (HPT Rule), which requires hospitals to make public the standard charges of the items and...more

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Proposed Legislation Would Require Greater Transparency and Disclosure from Hospitals, Reduce Reimbursement to Certain Off-Campus...

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Two bills are moving in the United States House of Representatives that have implications for hospitals and health systems, with material changes proposed regarding pricing transparency requirements, identification and...more

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CMS Releases Updates to Hospital Pricing Transparency Rule

On April 26, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a fact sheet on Hospital Price Transparency Enforcement Updates (the “Fact Sheet”) under the Hospital Price Transparency Rule (the “Rule”)....more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: April 28, 2023

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Congress was in session, and it was a busy healthcare week at the committee level, with six hearings focused specifically on health issues. On the House floor, Republicans passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act—a bill that raises...more

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Price Transparency in Hospitals – Is Hospital Pricing Data a Protected Trade Secret?

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By this point, it's no secret the cost of healthcare services can vary dramatically between different providers of the same services. The Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden administrations all pushed for price transparency in...more

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CMS Backs Off Price Transparency for Providers and Plans

On August 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system (“IPPS”) final rule (“Final Rule”) for fiscal year 2022. In addition to a number of other...more

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CMS Proposes to Increase Significantly Hospital Penalties for Price Transparency Violations

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On July 19, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a proposal that would significantly increase the fines that would be imposed on hospitals for price transparency violations. This proposal,...more

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Recent Study Shows Lack of Compliance With CMS’ Hospital Price Transparency Rule

In a prior blog post, we discussed CMS’ Hospital Price Transparency Rule at 45 C.F.R. § 180.10 et. seq., effective January 1, 2021 (the “Rule”), which requires hospitals to make public “a machine-readable file containing a...more

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Lawmakers Raise Compliance Concerns Over Hospital Price Transparency Rules, Request Increased Enforcement

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On April 13, 2021, four key lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives wrote to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) expressing concern over reports of non-compliance with hospital price transparency...more

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D.C. Circuit Upholds Hospital Price Transparency: Regulations Paving Way for January 1, 2021 Effectiveness

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On December 29, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued its opinion in American Hospital Association v. Azar (the Opinion) upholding the Hospital Transparency Regulation (the Rule) issued...more

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Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 45. News Briefs: December 2020 #2

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 45 (December 21, 2020) - CMS said Dec. 18 it will audit a sample of hospitals for compliance with price transparency requirements, which take effect Jan. 1, according to MLN Connects....more

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Provider Requirement to post Cash Price of COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing pursuant to CARES Act & Potential to Incur Civil Monetary...

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All providers should take note of an under the radar provision of the CARES Act, 3202(a) & 3202(b), that requires all providers of diagnostic testing for COVID-19 to publicly post the cash price for such a test on the...more

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Hospital Price Transparency Rule: Full Steam Ahead

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Neither COVID-19 nor continued legal challenges appear likely to derail the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Price Transparency Rule from going into effect on January 1, 2021. Hospitals therefore should...more

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Providers Push for Implementation of Long-Awaited Changes to Stark and Anti-Kickback Statute

In October 2019, as part of HHS’ Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care, long-awaited rules were proposed by HHS and CMS regarding changes to the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). These rules were the byproduct of...more

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Hospital Associations Appeal Decision Upholding Price Transparency Rule; King & Spalding Price Transparency Working Group Helping...

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On July 17, 2020, the American Hospital Association and several additional associations and individual hospitals filed their opening brief in their appeal of a decision of the district court, which, had upheld CMS’s price...more

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D.C. District Court Upholds Rule Requiring Hospitals To Disclose Privately Negotiated Insurances Prices

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On June 23, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a challenge to a federal rule requiring hospitals to disclose prices they privately negotiated with insurers....more

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American Hospital Association’s Lawsuit Challenging CMS’s Price Transparency Final Rule Set for Summary Judgment Hearing in April

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On December 4, 2019, the American Hospital Association and several hospital associations and hospitals (“Plaintiffs”) filed suit against the Secretary of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) to challenge the Centers for Medicare...more

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Triage in 2020: Health Care Topics to Watch in the New Year

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In this week's episode, Lindsey Rogers-Seitz forecasts a number of critical issues spanning the health care industry that are likely to be points of focus in the coming year. Among these issues, Ms. Rogers-Seitz discusses the...more

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Health Care and Price Transparency: The Latest Summary

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Federal executive agencies recently published two rules, one final and one proposed, aimed at publicizing the various costs associated with health care. A final rule, promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services...more

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Administration Again Attempts to Lower Drug Prices

In 2018, the administration published its Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices for U.S. citizens. The Blueprint included 12 proposed actions by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)....more

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Healthcare Law Update: July 2019

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CMS Regulation - District Court Strikes Down Rule Mandating Price Disclosure in DTC Pharmaceutical Advertisements - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), together with the Centers for Medicare &...more

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