The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allotted a blanket waiver to critical access hospitals (CAHs) of certain Medicare certification requirements to aid their response to 2019 novel coronavirus disease...more
Colorado Passes New Law -
The Colorado General Assembly recently passed new statute C.R.S. 12-42.5-308, which would require pharmaceutical manufacturer marketing employees or agents to present, at the time of marketing a...more
Daniel Levinson, the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, kicked off the annual Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) Compliance Institute in Orlando Florida this morning. ...more
In the Federal Register (79 Fed. Reg. 59717) on October 3, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) proposed changes to the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the civil monetary penalty...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a new rule last week that will result in home health agencies (HHAs) netting $58 million less in FY 2015 reimbursements. The proposed rule changes the payment...more
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