Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance, Hospitals

New Illinois Protections Against Patient Medical Debt May Also Help Reduce Hospital Bad Debt

McDermott Will & Emery on 12/4/2023

Starting in mid-2024, Illinois hospitals will be required to take a much more active role in limiting consumers’ medical debt by screening all consenting uninsured patients for both public health insurance program coverage...more

HHS Proposes Rule Strengthening Section 1557 Protections Against Nondiscrimination in Health Activities

BakerHostetler on 8/8/2022

On Aug. 4, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its proposed rule, Nondiscrimination in Health Care and Activities (Proposed Rule), to revise its regulations pertaining to Section 1557 of the...more

The Surprises Continue: The Biden Administration Delays Implementation of Certain Provisions of the No Surprises Act and...

Proskauer - Health Care Law Brief on 9/3/2021

In a FAQ published on August 20, 2021, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury (collectively, the “Departments”) significantly delayed implementation of statutory requirements on surprise billing...more

Podcast: American Rescue Plan Delivers New Stimulus Funding - Diagnosing Health Care

Epstein Becker & Green on 3/31/2021

The $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, the American Rescue Plan, includes money for rural hospitals, billions of dollars for COVID-19 testing and contact tracing, and extra subsidies to help people buy health coverage...more

Healthcare Policy Under the Biden Administration: Key Takeaways

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 3/8/2021

Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Angela Humphreys—Chair of the Healthcare Practice and Co-Chair of the Healthcare Private Equity Team—sat down virtually with Paul Keckley—a healthcare policy analyst, industry expert and Managing...more

To rein in health costs, experts focus on $1.2 trillion in U.S. hospital spending

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 2/25/2021

Although politicians have obsessed for a decade about affordable health insurance, frustrated patients have seen little or no relief on another crucial concern — the skyrocketing costs of medical services. What policy paths...more

Client Alert: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Price Transparency Rule

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP on 2/12/2021

As of January 1, 2021, almost all hospitals in the United States will have to comply with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Additionally, the government has been open about...more

Hospitals start to roll out newly required data on prices and confidential deals

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 1/8/2021

A lot of people in health care across the country are firing up their computers to dig into long-sought, confidential information from hospitals about their prices and deals they cut on them with an array of parties....more

U.S. long hoped to reduce health spending. Now it’s happened, but it may not be good.

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 12/10/2020

The nation has gotten some long-desired, important health care economic news: The country has “bent the cost curve,” seeing 2020 as the first year in at least six decades in which America’s health care spending went down....more

New Health Care Transparency Requirements: Will They Lower Cost and Improve Quality?

Epstein Becker & Green on 11/20/2020

On November 12, 2020, the Trump administration published its final rule on price transparency (the “Final Rule”) requiring affected entities to publicly release personalized information on out-of-pocket costs as well as...more

What Comes Next? Eight Things to Look for in the Healthcare Industry After the Pandemic

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 11/3/2020

At this point, there are few if any people left in the United States whose lives have not been impacted by COVID-19. In New York, where the impact has been especially pronounced, the peak of the pandemic has passed, and the...more

The health insurance mess: Worker costs jump anew, as kids’ coverage falls

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 10/16/2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced many Americans to reconsider their transportation options, what with fears of infection and the slashing of public transit systems’ routes and schedules. That has made used cars, motorcycles,...more

COVID-19: Resources for Oncology Providers (Medicaid, Grants, & Stark Law Waivers)

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/16/2020

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and other Federal and State agencies and...more

HHS Issues Advisory Opinion on PREP Act: Immunity May Extend Beyond Actual Covered Persons and Approved Countermeasures

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 4/15/2020

With crisis comes uncertainty, and even the best-intentioned regulations can leave those combating the current COVID-19 public-health emergency out in the cold. Many have asked whether the recent Declaration under the...more

Health CARES – How the CARES Act Impacts Health Care Providers

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 4/2/2020

Congress passed and the President signed the CARES Act on March 27, 2020. The Act impacts hospitals, post-acute providers and long term care facilities in numerous ways. The following is an outline of key provisions and their...more

CMS Releases Tools to Support States’ Medicaid and CHIP Programs During the COVID-19 Outbreak

King & Spalding on 4/1/2020

On March 22, 2020, CMS announced a suite of four new tools intended to help states combat the coronavirus by allowing states to streamline enrollment into long-term care and home-based services and by expediting application...more

CMS Announces New Priorities for Facility Surveys and Inspections

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 3/25/2020

In light of findings from the COVID-19 outbreak at a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it will suspend all routine facility inspections and surveys...more

Bipartisan Rx for America’s Healthcare: A Practical Path to Reform

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 3/9/2020

Tom Daschle, Cochair, Former Senate Majority Leader, Co-Founder, Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) - Andy Slavitt, Cochair, Senior Advisor, BPC, Former Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - ...more

Day 2 Notes at the 2020 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/16/2020

The Big Cost; Cancer is the Answer; and SDOH Evolves - The Big Cost: You’re okay today, and then tomorrow you’re not. Life has changed and there’s a new reality. Whether it’s an acute event – an accident, a heart attack, a...more

Price Transparency: Federal Government Issues Final Rule for Hospitals and Proposed Rule for Group Health Plans and Health...

Foley & Lardner LLP on 12/27/2019

On November 15, 2019, the Federal Government issued two rules: one in final form and one in proposed form, both designed to increase price transparency in health care. The rules follow on the Executive Order announced by...more

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