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CMS Issues Final Rule Impacting Prior Authorization Process

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Last week CMS issued its final rule “CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization” (CMS-0057-F), unchanged from its proposed rule in 2022, which addresses prior authorizations. Prior authorization, a “utilization management”...more

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House Holds Hearing on MACRA Challenges, but Meaningful Reform is Unlikely

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On June 22, 2023, the US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing titled “MACRA Checkup: Assessing Implementation and Challenges that Remain for...more

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Holland & Knight Health Dose: October 11, 2022

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Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector. This week's topics include ... ...more

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California Passes New Law Requiring Physicians and their Employers to Notify Patients about the Open Payments Database

A new California law (AB 1278) will require physicians and their employers to provide patients with several forms of notices about the Open Payments database, starting January 1, 2023. The law is intended to increase...more

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Medicare Revocation Consequences Worsened – Further Reenrollment Restrictions

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CMS recently finalized the most significant changes to enrollment since the 2006 enrollment rules were initially adopted. Overview of the New Rule - In its "Program Integrity Enhancements to the Provider Enrollment...more

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Keep Medicare Enrollment Information Correct and Current or Suffer Consequences

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While most providers understand the need to bill Medicare correctly, many often fail to recognize the potentially disastrous results of not keeping Medicare informed of your correct and up-to-date practice information. A...more

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CMS Final Rule Strengthens Integrity of Medicare Provider Enrollment Process

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On September 10, 2019, the US Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule (Final Rule) expanding Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program...more

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TRANSPARENCY: Embracing CMS’s Push To Publicize Your Organization’s Performance

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is launching new value-based programs with great fervor as a central strategy to bend the healthcare cost curve. Value-based reimbursement models linked to achieving the...more

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OIG July 2018 Work Plan Update

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The OIG added six new items to its Work Plan in the July 2018 update. Areas addressed include HHS cybersecurity vulnerabilities, increased payments for transfer claims with outliers, oversight of funds for Access Increases in...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Congress Makes Key Changes to Medicare Physician Payment Programs as Part of Short-Term Government Funding Bill

• Congress amended current law to prevent CMS from applying the “MIPS” payment adjustment to separately billed items like drugs and biologics, which will drastically reduce the total amount of payment adjustments to clinical...more

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House, Senate Proposals to Extend Funding for the Federal Government

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Congress moved one step closer to avoiding a government shutdown on Feb. 6, voting overwhelmingly (245-182) to pass a short-term, GOP-backed government funding bill (text; section-by-section) that would keep the federal...more

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The Brave New World of Physician Medicare Payment: MACRA Makes Sweeping Changes

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On November 14, 2016, CMS published its final rule implementing the physician payment provisions of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (“MACRA”). The rule became effective January 1, 2017. Data collection from...more

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Health Law Insights: November Newsletter

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ALERT: "No Contract" Disclaimer in Employee Handbook Upheld by Illinois CourtAuthor: Employee handbooks have long been a trap for the unwary employer that desires merely to establish a set of rules and policies without...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

“May You Live in Interesting Times” – Some Healthcare Predictions for the Trump Administration’s First Year

The ancient Chinese curse – “May you live in interesting times” – certainly springs to mind these days. What does the election of Donald Trump mean for the healthcare industry, the Affordable Care Act and current healthcare...more

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Lawmakers Join MedPAC in Speaking Out Against CMS Surgeon Data Collection Proposal

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On September 16, 2016, approximately 112 congressional representatives submitted a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell and CMS acting Administrator Andy Slavitt requesting that CMS not implement its proposal...more

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Managing the Transition to Transformation: Quality and Payment Reform: Who Is Asking for What and Why?

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McDermott’s Managing the Transition to Transformation series is designed to help health systems and other health care industry leaders address the many challenges presented by the transformation in payment and care delivery...more

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Will Physicians Accept CMS's Offer to "Pick Your Pace"?

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The Acting CMS Administrator, Andy Slavitt, announced that CMS would propose new options for physician participation in the Quality Payment Program (QPP) under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA)....more

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Legal Issues Associated with Multi-Provider Alternative Payment Model

Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), both federal and state policies have promoted the adoption of alternative payment models (APMs), providing financial incentives for groups of providers to improve care...more

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CMS Proposes “Advancing Care Information” Program to Replace Meaningful Use

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) proposes a new approach, with new branding labels, to paying clinicians for the value and the quality of care that they provide by replacing a patchwork of existing...more

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

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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

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Washington Healthcare Update

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This Week: FDA Begins Device User Fee Talks with Patients and Consumers Sept. 15... CMS Extends Partial Enforcement Delay of Two-Midnight Policy Through 2015... Alaska Legislature Sues Governor Over Medicaid Expansion....more

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SGR Fix Bill Includes Important Change to Gainsharing CMP

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President Obama recently signed into law Public Law No. 114-10, the “Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015” (P.L. 114-10), which overhauls Medicare physician reimbursements by eliminating the use of the...more

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Washington Healthcare Update

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This Week: House Ways & Means Committee Holds Markup; Makes Significant Legislative Changes to Health Care Bills... Senate Finance Committee Holds Markup on Medicare Appeals Process Bill... CMS Issues Final Rule on...more

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MIPS: Moving Physician Payments Beyond the Sustainable Growth Rate?

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Medicare continues to transition its primary physician payment methodology from a traditional fee-for-service model into a quality and value-based model. Recently, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015...more

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Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act: Paving the Way for Broader Gainsharing Activities

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On April 16, 2015, President Obama signed into law H.R.2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), a critical piece of health care legislation which represents significant movement towards a health...more

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