Happy New Year and welcome to our 2024 Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Year in Review. 2024 was less stressful and dramatic than most people feared at the start of the year, but there still were some significant rulings...more
1/22/2025
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RPA Perspective: 2025 Medicare Fee Schedule and ESRD PPS Final Rules—Highlights for Nephrology -
The final rule for the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule was released on November 1, and the highlights from the rule...more
11/18/2024
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As value-based care (VBC) models continue to grow across our nation’s health system and specifically within different specialties like nephrology, the costs and challenges of maintaining these models continue to rise. In...more
8/13/2024
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Six Main Takeaways from the Benesch Healthcare+ Nephrology & Dialysis Conference.
Experts included Dapo Afolabi, M.D., President and CEO of Fort Worth Renal Group, Terry Litchfield, President of Access Solutions, Jason...more
6/29/2023
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Federal omnibus spending bill rolls back some Medicare payment cuts scheduled for 2023, 2024 -
Buried within the $1.7-trillion spending package signed by the President on Dec. 29 was partial relief for a planned 4.5% cut...more
1/16/2023
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Benesch: DOL proposed rule aims to clarify independent contractor classification -
The Department of Labor (DOL) proposes changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act to clarify the difference between an independent contractor...more
On July 13, 2021 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) proposed rule for calendar year (CY) 2022 that could result in potentially significant reductions to...more
CMS to reprocess excepted off-campus provider-based outpatient claims following court ruling -
CMS says it’ll begin reprocessing claims for outpatient clinic visit services provided at excepted off-campus provider-based...more
2/1/2021
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On December 21, 2020, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (CRA), which combines a $1.4 trillion omnibus government spending bill with a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package. The massive bill, which was...more