On June 2, 2022, the Florida governor signed the Freedom First budget for State Fiscal Year 2022-2023 (the Law), which provided over $600 million in funding to the Agency for Health Care Administration (the Agency)...more
On Sept. 9, 2021, President Biden announced his COVID-19 Action Plan – “Path Out of the Pandemic.” As part of this plan, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was directed to issue emergency regulations requiring...more
On April 27, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS). The proposed rule includes CMS...more
On Friday, April 10, 2020, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the release of the provider relief funds authorized by the CARES Act. These funds will provide $100 billion to hospitals and...more
On March 30, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an interim final rule that outlined additional flexibilities for providers to address the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. CMS believes that these...more
Healthcare providers nationwide now have an additional tool to promote social distancing in patient care. On Mar. 17, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) confirmed that practitioners nationwide may conduct...more
With growing patient demands, advanced technology and payer restraints, healthcare providers are increasingly exploring management agreements with experienced companies to handle the daily operations of their clinical...more
Summer was no vacation for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The agency released a series of significant rules that signal the nature and pace of CMS Medicare payment and policy changes for hospitals and...more
8/25/2017
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospitals ,
Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization (MACRA) ,
MIPS ,
Physicians ,
Quality Payment Program (QPP) ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Trump Administration ,
Value-Based Payments
On June 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a much anticipated rule outlining proposed payment and policy changes to the new Medicare Part B Quality Payment Program (QPP) that was created by the...more
With the possibility of significant penalties for improperly reported transactions, it is important to understand how certain changes necessitate specific reporting.
Is your organization considering a stock transfer, a...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued its proposed rule updating fiscal year (FY) 2018 payment policies and rates under the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS). As highlighted...more
The research community has a full plate as it sifts through the final rule on the Common Rule issued last week. Many are now fully appreciating the December gift from the National Institutes of Health that granted an...more
The 21st Century Cures Act signed into law on December 13, 2016 is gaining significant attention as landmark legislation promoting medical innovation. But the massive Cures Act goes much further and includes some relief...more
Now that the rule is out, work to implement the BBA changes begins in earnest.
CMS commemorated the one-year anniversary of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA) with the traditional gift of paper, offering...more
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) have recently finalized or signaled intent to finalize numerous proposals that promise to change the landscape of clinical trial reporting,...more
For those in the hospital industry hoping for additional clarity regarding the operation and billing of provider-based departments (PBDs), the CY 2017 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Proposed Rule provides some...more
This month, hospitals impacted by Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA) may finally get a glimpse of what the future holds for the off-campus departments they operated or were developing when the BBA was...more
CMS recently issued a proposed rule updating fiscal year (FY) 2017 Medicare payment policies and rates under the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and the long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective payment...more
5/11/2016
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Comment Period ,
Electronic Health Record Incentives ,
Hospitals ,
Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) ,
Inpatient Quality Reporting ,
Long Term Care Facilities ,
Medicare ,
NOTICE Act ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Two-Midnight Rule ,
Value-Based Purchasing