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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New Budget Deal Can Bring Extension of Medicare Sequestration Cuts

While many in Washington, D.C. are celebrating today the unusual display of bipartisan budgetary comity as the new budget deal is announced, there is a direct and immediate adverse effect for hospitals and physicians. As...more

Nossaman LLP

Sequester the Sequestration Cuts, Please! Why the Health Care Industry Must Brace Itself for More Change...

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As the federal government scrambles to cut burgeoning health care costs, yet increase health care coverage to the uninsured or underinsured, the paradox of expansion, on the one hand, yet constriction, on the other, has...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Health Care Reform Update -- March 19, 2013

In This Issue: Leading the News – Budgets and the Continuing Resolution (CR); Implementation of the Affordable Care Act; Other Congressional and State Initiatives; Other HHS and Federal Regulatory Initiatives; Other...more

King & Spalding

CMS Releases Sequestration Details; Medicare EHR Incentive Payments Subject to Two-Percent Reduction

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On March 8, 2013, CMS announced that it will apply the two-percent sequestration reduction to all Medicare provider payments with dates of service/discharge on or after April 1, 2013. The announcement also states that claims...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Congress could use some "Colorado Courage"

Faced with unpleasant alternatives, Congress sometimes simply ignores problems. Its recent “solution” to the fiscal cliff is a case in point. Rather than face the problem, Congress has adopted temporary measures, postponed...more

King & Spalding

President Obama Issues Sequestration Order, CMS Has Yet to Publish Implementation Instructions

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On March 1, 2013, President Obama issued a sequestration order directing the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to administer across-the-board cuts to federal spending. Concurrently, OMB issued a report to Congress...more

BakerHostetler

Healthcare Provisions In The American Taxpayer Relief Act - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

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In late night action on December 31, 2012, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA) was passed by the Senate and finalized days later by Congress and the President with a set of tax and spending policy provisions...more

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OMB Issues Report on Likely Effects of Sequestration

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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a report on September 14, 2012 detailing the magnitude of impending across-the-board cuts to Federal spending beginning on January 2, 2013 in a process known as...more

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