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CMS Releases FY 2021 Medicare IPPS and LTCH PPS Proposed Rule

King & Spalding on 5/22/2020

On May 11, 2020, CMS issued its annual Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule for FY 2021 (the Proposed Rule), which will affect...more

CMS Final Rule Aims to Advance Interoperability, Exchange of Clinical and Plan Information

McDermott Will & Emery on 3/18/2020

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its highly anticipated final rule aimed at enhancing interoperability and increasing patient access to health information. CMS’s final rule will require hospitals...more

Reminder: Hospitals must use QualityNet for attestation in 2018

Bricker Graydon LLP on 1/23/2018

Eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must now use the QualityNet Secure Portal (QNet) to submit meaningful use attestations for the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program. ...more

New CMS Guidance on Information Blocking

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 11/28/2017

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published two important guidance statements on so-called "information blocking," i.e., knowingly and willfully limiting or restricting the compatibility or...more

CMS and ONC Release Stage 3 Meaningful Use and EHR Certification Final Rules

King & Spalding on 10/13/2015

On October 6, 2015, CMS released the final Stage 3 Meaningful Use Rule that, among other provisions, sets forth the requirements that eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must...more

Payment Innovation: 30 Day Window to Provide CMS Comments on Physician Payment Changes Under MACRA Begins

Polsinelli on 10/1/2015

On September 28, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a Request for Information (RFI) seeking stakeholder comments related to innovative physician payment models required by the Medicare Access...more

Also In The News - Health Headlines - July 2015

King & Spalding on 7/24/2015

CMS Reopens Attestation Period For First-Time Hospitals Until August – CMS recently announced that eligible hospitals participating in the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program for the first time in 2015 may...more

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