Many healthcare programs are extended for specific time periods, as short as one or two years or as long as 10, and are usually attached to a larger piece of must-pass legislation....more
12/4/2025
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Last week, right before you enjoyed your Thanksgiving feast, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule that lays out policy and technical changes to the Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D...more
12/4/2025
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On November 21, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the calendar year (CY) 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System final...more
11/25/2025
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Last Friday (November 21), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the calendar year (CY) 2026 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) final rule, the major Medicare payment rule impacting hospital...more
11/25/2025
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We are still waiting for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to issue the remaining three calendar year (CY) 2026 Medicare payment rules....more
11/20/2025
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Below is a tracker of healthcare-related executive orders (EOs) issued by the Trump administration, including overviews of each EO and the date each EO was signed. We will regularly update this tracker as additional EOs are...more
11/17/2025
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The end of the longest government shutdown in US history is finally here, with the president having signed a continuing resolution (CR) that funds the government through January 30, 2026....more
11/13/2025
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McDermott+ is pleased to bring you Regs & Eggs, a weekly Regulatory Affairs blog by Jeffrey Davis. November 4, 2025 – Trick or treat! On Halloween evening, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) spooked all of us...more
11/5/2025
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On October 31, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Calendar Year (CY) 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule, which includes policies related to Medicare physician payment and...more
McDermott+ is pleased to bring you Regs & Eggs, a weekly Regulatory Affairs blog by Jeffrey Davis. October 30, 2025 – For those of you who haven’t heard the news, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was able to...more
10/30/2025
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McDermott+ is pleased to bring you Regs & Eggs, a weekly Regulatory Affairs blog by Jeffrey Davis. October 23, 2025 – We in the health policy world have been kept on our toes lately as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...more
10/23/2025
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New Guidance ,
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Reimbursements ,
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Below is a tracker of healthcare-related executive orders (EOs) issued by the Trump administration, including overviews of each EO and the date each EO was signed. We will regularly update this tracker as additional EOs are...more
10/20/2025
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McDermott+ is pleased to bring you Regs & Eggs, a weekly Regulatory Affairs blog by Jeffrey Davis. October 16, 2025 – Over the last couple of weeks, stakeholders have raised many questions about how the government shutdown...more
10/16/2025
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McDermott+ is pleased to bring you Regs & Eggs, a weekly Regulatory Affairs blog by Jeffrey Davis. October 9, 2025 – Several recent Regs & Eggs blog posts have focused on comments that stakeholders submitted on two major...more
10/9/2025
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McDermott+ is pleased to bring you Regs & Eggs, a weekly Regulatory Affairs blog by Jeffrey Davis. October 2, 2025 – We are in day two of a government shutdown, but the health policy community has been discussing the...more
McDermott+ is pleased to bring you Regs & Eggs, a weekly Regulatory Affairs blog by Jeffrey Davis. September 25, 2025 – We’ve enjoyed a buffet of comments on regs (and eggs) recently. In our last post, we discussed comments...more
McDermott+ is pleased to bring you Regs & Eggs, a weekly Regulatory Affairs blog by Jeffrey Davis. September 18, 2025 – Comments on the calendar year (CY) 2026 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule were due last Friday....more
9/18/2025
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McDermott+ is pleased to bring you Regs & Eggs, a weekly Regulatory Affairs blog by Jeffrey Davis. September 11, 2025 – Ever since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center released its new strategy...more
We are in a busy season for regulations, as discussed in last week’s Regs & Eggs blog post. One Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rule now under review at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will be of...more
9/4/2025
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McDermott+ is pleased to bring you Regs & Eggs, a weekly Regulatory Affairs blog by Jeffrey Davis. August 28, 2025 – For some of us (like me and my colleague Kristen O’Brien), this week marks the end of summer vacation and...more
McDermott+ is pleased to bring you Regs & Eggs, a weekly Regulatory Affairs blog by Jeffrey Davis. August 21, 2025 – Within the next few weeks, the Trump administration is expected to issue the second Make America Healthy...more
8/22/2025
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Below is a tracker of healthcare-related executive orders (EOs) issued by the Trump administration, including overviews of each EO and the date each EO was signed. We will regularly update this tracker as additional EOs are...more
8/20/2025
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Stakeholders in the Medicare value-based care world have without a doubt heard of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs), and alternative payment models (APMs). While all these initiatives...more
8/13/2025
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Below is a tracker of healthcare-related executive orders (EOs) issued by the Trump administration, including overviews of each EO and the date each EO was signed. We will regularly update this tracker as additional EOs are...more
8/6/2025
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Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued all the fiscal year (FY) 2026 Medicare final regulations for different facility types: hospice facilities, inpatient psychiatric facilities, inpatient...more