As has been widely reported, earlier this summer, President Biden issued Executive Order (EO) 14036, “Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” The EO provides insight into how the Biden-Harris administration plans to...more
9/10/2021
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- Tucked into a massive Medicare payment rule is a proposal to fundamentally change how CMS sets hospital payment rates.
- Recognizing that a hospital’s chargemaster rarely reflects true market costs, CMS seeks to use...more
5/15/2020
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While the United States now leads the world with the number of reported cases of COVID-19, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (or “the Act”) takes major, though perhaps still incomplete, steps...more
4/1/2020
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As the number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. continues to grow, the CARES Act makes a number of changes to support the ability of the health care system to respond to the crisis over the coming months. In addition, the package...more
3/30/2020
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On September 19, 2016, the Inspector General (IG) for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the latest in a long line of reports identifying flaws in EPA’s process for ensuring the efficacy of hospital-grade,...more