On November 1, 2018, CMS issued a final rule (“Final Rule”) which finalizes numerous changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (“PFS”), the Quality Reporting Program, and the Medicare Shared Savings Program (“MSSP”). ...more
Last month, the Maine Legislature passed an amendment to the Maine Pharmacy Act to prohibit licensed manufacturers and wholesalers of pharmaceuticals from offering certain gifts to practitioners authorized to prescribe and...more
On October 14, 2016, CMS issued its Final Rule for the new physician payment system under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). MACRA replaced the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) with a new...more
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