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
On May 2, 2018, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed into law a bill allowing failed rural hospitals to be converted into “micro-hospitals.” The law comes as a response to a recent string of rural hospital closures and a...more
Physical therapy providers are the target of a recent HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) report that identified millions of dollars in overpayments for improperly billed Medicare services. The OIG selected a stratified...more
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is considering asking Congress to cut Medicare payments for off-campus emergency departments located in urban areas and increase payments to stand-alone outpatient and...more
On February 20, 2018, the Trump administration announced a proposed rule to allow insurers to offer short-term, limited-duration insurance plans that provide coverage for a period of up to twelve months. The limit for this...more