On August 1, 2024, CMS filed a display copy of its final rule for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 pertaining to the Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) for general acute care hospitals and long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) (the...more
White House Expected to Sign Law Opening Competitive Bidding for Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Activities On July 27, 2023, the U.S. Senate passed H.R. 2544 - Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement and...more
On March 22, 2023, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an HHS subagency, announced major reforms for the nation’s organ transplant system. Chief among the reforms is to increase competition and...more
On January 25, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling that the Secretary of HHS violated the due process rights of Medicare beneficiaries by failing to provide an administrative...more
On August 10, 2021, CMS notified Ohio, South Carolina, and Utah that it is withdrawing its prior approval of the Medicaid demonstration projects in these states, which had established work requirements as a condition for...more
On January 28, 2021, President Biden signed the “Executive Order on Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act” which, among other things, ordered a special enrollment period (SEP) for the federal Health Insurance...more
On October 14, 2020, CMS added eleven (11) new services to its Medicare telehealth list that are payable during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). This latest expansion of telehealth services is the first to use the...more
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On Friday, August 7, 2020, HHS issued a press release detailing the next CARES Act-authorized Provider Relief Fund (PRF) distribution for nursing homes. The PRF distribution will total approximately $5 billion. Unlike...more
On July 10, 2019, President Trump issued an Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health aimed at reducing the number of patients developing kidney failure, having fewer Americans receiving dialysis in dialysis...more
On March 27, 2019, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg for the District of Columbia issued two opinions that struck down the Secretary of HHS’s approval of Medicaid work requirement waivers in Kentucky and Arkansas. ...more
On June 29, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia decided Stringfellow Memorial Hospital et al. v. Azar by granting summary judgment to the Secretary of HHS in his defense of the FY 2005 Inpatient...more