Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program got good news from The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) related to widespread fraud involving urinary catheters that...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new primary care model—the Making Care Primary (MCP) Model—geared towards smaller, independent primary care practices and organizations that want to participate...more
On November 25, 2019, CMS released a Request for Application (RFA) describing how organizations can apply to participate in two of three Direct Contracting Model options. The Direct Contracting Model is a set of voluntary...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently introduced three new population-based payment (“PBP”) risk-sharing Direct Contracting (“DC”) model options that intend to decrease expenditures and increase...more
On December 21, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule redesigning the Medicare Shared Savings Program (the Program) for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). The policies reflected in...more
On December 31, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a Final Rule that redesigns the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). The rule implementing this redesign, titled “Pathways to Success,”...more
On August 9, 2018, CMS issued a proposed rule for restructuring the Medicare Shared Savings Program (Shared Savings Program) which would, among other things, change the participation options available under the program for...more
On June 25, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published in the Federal Register a “request for information” regarding potential reforms to the federal physician self-referral law (or the “Stark Law”). ...more
As you may have read, accountable care organizations have met uneven success over the last several years. But, when they are broken down into categories, physician-sponsored ACOs have done better, particularly those with a...more
On Oct. 14, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule with comment period implementing the bipartisan Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). The nearly 2,400 pages of...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued a proposed rule modifying the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) regulations (the “Rule”). Among other changes, the Rule proposes (a) to modify the...more
On January 11, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the Next Generation ACO program, along with the first group of participants. The program builds on the CMS Pioneer ACO Model and Medicare...more
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) can share costs of telehealth and remote patient monitoring services among their hospitals, providers/suppliers, and other ACO participants, according to federal regulations under the...more
This is the fourth post in Health Care Law Today’s series on the final rule. This post addresses how CMS assigns beneficiaries to an ACO participating in the MSSP. In the MSSP ACO Final Rule, CMS finalized new...more
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its Final Rule on the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). The Final Rule provides additional flexibility to accountable care organizations...more
On June 4, 2015, CMS issued final regulations revising the Medicare Shared Savings Program, including changes to provisions relating to the payment of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) participating in the Medicare Shared...more
On Tuesday, March 10, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") announced the introduction of the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization ("ACO") Model of payment and care delivery. ACOs...more
CMS ANNOUNCES NEW RULES THAT MAKE OWNER DOCTORS LIABLE FOR ALL PRACTICE MEDICARE DEBTS - Even after they leave the Practice. CMS announced its final rules on "Medicare Provider Oversight" on December 3, 2014. ...more