CMS recently published a proposed rule to update certain of the hospital and critical access hospital (CAH) Medicare and Medicaid conditions of participation (CoPs). With its goals of modernizing hospital and CAH CoPs,...more
A Texas Federal district court upheld CMS’s distinction between primary and secondary roads connecting hospitals, which is a factor used to determine whether a hospital is a critical access hospital (“CAH”). ...more
This is the fourth post in Health Care Law Today’s series on the final rule. This post addresses how CMS assigns beneficiaries to an ACO participating in the MSSP. In the MSSP ACO Final Rule, CMS finalized new...more
On May 7, 2014, CMS issued CMS-3267-F, which finalizes reforms to various regulatory provisions that CMS identified as unnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome. CMS estimates that these changes will save affected...more