On August 15, 2017, CMS announced a proposed rule to cancel the Episode Payment Models (EPMs) and Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) incentive payment model scheduled to begin January 1, 2018, and to rescind the regulations...more
Congressman Tom MacArthur (R-NJ), a co-chair of the moderate House Republican Tuesday Group, in consultation with Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC), chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, proposed an amendment to...more
On April 14, 2017, CMS issued the annual Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Rule for FY 2018 (the “Proposed Rule”) which will affect discharges on or after October 1, 2017. CMS estimates that IPPS operating...more
Yesterday, by a vote of 217 to 213, the U.S. House of Representatives approved H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The House action...more
On March 8, 2017, the two House Committees responsible for healthcare policy related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) held marathon-like deliberations to mark-up their respective portions of the Republicansponsored health...more
HHS posted a report to Congress on its website in August 2016 that responds to the requirements in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) to offer legislative and regulatory suggestions regarding the...more
On January 5, 2017, the HHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) published a final rule updating the price structure that drug manufacturers participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program may charge to covered...more
On November 30, 2016, the House of Representatives passed the 21st Century Cures Act, a bill intended to modernize health care delivery and speed up and improve medical research and innovations by removing bureaucratic...more
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On September 27, 2016, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) sent an email announcement that it will extend its quarterly registration period for the 340B Drug Pricing Program (340B Program) by two days...more
On July 21, 2016, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a settlement with the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), stemming from a 2013 breach of...more
On July 6, 2016, CMS released the Calendar Year (CY) 2017 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System Proposed Rule. In addition to significant proposals...more