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Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule Proposes New Quality-Driven Payment Policies

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Within its proposed CY 2025 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) rule (the Proposed Rule), CMS is proposing to implement new payment policies intended to advance health equity and support whole-person care. CMS expects these new...more

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Transforming Primary Care: CMS Launches Making Care Primary (MCP) Model

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new primary care model—the Making Care Primary (MCP) Model—geared towards smaller, independent primary care practices and organizations that want to participate...more

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HHS Announces Continuing Telehealth Flexibilities Following the End of the COVID-19 PHE

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On May 10, 2023, HHS announced that many telehealth and teleprescribing flexibilities will remain in place after the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) on May 11, 2023. Congress extended many telehealth...more

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Day 1 Notes from the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

I was struck on the first day of the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference by Sanjay Doddamani (CEO of UpStream Healthcare) saying that “Health is a state of independence.” A simple statement, but a very profound and...more

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Medicaid and the LawFoley Hoag LLP CMS Approves Two New Medicaid Waivers to Expand Coverage, Provide Flexibilities

On September 28, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued approval letters for Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration applications previously submitted by Oregon and Massachusetts. Section 1115 waivers...more

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CMS Aims to Grow ACO Participation

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently published the proposed 2023 Physician Fee Schedule (“PFS”), which contains several important changes affecting Accountable Care Organizations (“ACOs”) that...more

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CMS Proposes Sweeping Changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program

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As part of the CY 2023 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule (the Proposed Rule) released on July 7, 2022, CMS has proposed significant changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). The agency’s press release...more

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CMS Changes Trump-era Innovation Models Affecting ACOS

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On February 24, 2022, CMS announced major changes to several of its innovation models, including the permanent cancellation of the Geographic Direct Contracting Model—a Trump-era model that tested whether a geographic-based...more

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CMS Issues Medicare IPPS and LTCH Proposed Rule for FY 2021

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On April 27, 2021, CMS issued the fiscal year (FY) 2022 proposed rule for the hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective payment system (the Proposed Rule). Among...more

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Searching for Safe Harbors? CMS-Sponsored Model Participants Receive Anti-Kickback Statute Protection

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Enrolling in such a CMS-sponsored innovation model now has an added benefit: a new Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) safe harbor. ...In its mission to reward value over volume, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS)...more

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Rural Hospitals and Doctors Get HHS Assistance with New Payment Model

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On August 11, 2020, the CMS Innovation Center, the office within HHS with authority to create and test healthcare payment systems, announced a new payment model – the Community Health Access and Rural Transformation (CHART)...more

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COVID-19 And Medicare Alternate Payment Programs

Insurance payments for healthcare services and supplies are frequently based on projections of future costs, often measured against a baseline calculated on past costs. However, COVID-19 and its attendant changes to the...more

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More Help is on the Way For Accountable Care Organizations: CMS Announces New Relief For ACOS Struggling With The Covid-19 Crisis

According to an April 13, 2020 Press Release issued by the National Association of ACOs (“NAACOS”), a recent NAACOS survey shows that 56% of the survey-participating at-risk accountable care organizations (“ACOs”) – i.e.,...more

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CMS Announces Further Rule Changes to Address Pandemic

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On April 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced numerous regulatory waivers and rule changes to, among other things, expand Medicare beneficiaries’ access to coronavirus testing and telehealth...more

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Vermont Health Care Update 01-13-2020 - An analysis from DRM's Health Law Team

DVHA presents budget adjustment proposal - The House Health Care Committee heard from Department of Vermont Health Access Commissioner Cory Gustafson on Tuesday on his department’s 2020 budget adjustment. ...more

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CMS and OIG Release Long-Awaited Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Proposed Rules

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released two proposed rules restructuring the Physician Self-Referral...more

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TRANSPARENCY: Embracing CMS’s Push To Publicize Your Organization’s Performance

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is launching new value-based programs with great fervor as a central strategy to bend the healthcare cost curve. Value-based reimbursement models linked to achieving the...more

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The ACO Specialist Manual

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The ACO Specialist Manual is a strategic guide to getting the optimum value-add contributions from each medical specialty in integrated health care. For purposes of this Manual, the teams are generally termed accountable care...more

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CMS’s New “Primary Cares Initiative” Places Primary Care at the Center of the Shift to Value-Based Care

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On April 22, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced two sweeping new payment innovation models under the Primary Cares Initiatives. The models will seek to incentivize primary care and other...more

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Vermont Legislative Update 03-29-2019 - An analysis from DRM's Government & Public Affairs Team

House passes budget bill - The House approved a $6.1 billion FY 2020 budget this week. The bill, H.542, provides for a 3.1 percent growth in spending over FY 2019....more

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Vermont Legislative Update 01/18/2019 - An analysis from DRM's Government & Public Affairs Team

The Senate Health and Welfare Committee reviewed a report Thursday on the state’s progress with health care payment and delivery system reform efforts. Department of Vermont Health Access Deputy Commissioner Michael Costa...more

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Washington Healthcare Update

This Week: Happy New Year! The 116th Congress begins and healthcare issues are part of the "buzz" of day one. Part of the government is still closed. ...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

2019 Physician Fee Schedule Rule Review: Option to Extend MSSP Agreements for Currently-Expiring ACOs Finalized

On November 1, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2019 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (PFS Rule), which contains a number of significant substantive changes to Medicare payment practices...more

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No Summer Slump for CMS: Major Changes Proposed for the Medicare Shared Savings Program

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On August 17, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) officially published a proposed rule (“Proposed Rule”) in the Federal Register that would significantly alter the Medicare Shared Savings Program...more

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Top 5 Takeaways: CMS’s Proposed Overhaul of the MSSP ACOs

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule on August 17, 2018, that would make sweeping changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), a federal program that incentivizes integrated...more

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