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On April 22, 2024 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Medicaid Program; Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services final rule. The rule has a particular focus on home- and community-based services...more
This program is part three of Manatt’s New Federal Rules on Medicaid Access and Managed Care webinar series. After releasing sweeping proposed rules on Medicaid access and managed care in spring 2023, the Centers for...more
This program is part two of Manatt’s New Federal Rules on Medicaid Access and Managed Care webinar series. After releasing sweeping proposed rules on Medicaid access and managed care in spring 2023, the Centers for...more
This program is part one of Manatt’s New Federal Rules on Medicaid Access and Managed Care webinar series. After releasing sweeping proposed rules on Medicaid access and managed care in spring 2023, the Centers for...more
Last week CMS issued its final rule “CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization” (CMS-0057-F), unchanged from its proposed rule in 2022, which addresses prior authorizations. Prior authorization, a “utilization management”...more
On July 27, 2023, CMS issued a final rule updating Medicare payments and policies under the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Prospective Payment System and the IRF Quality Reporting Program for FY 2024 (Final IRF...more
On March 31, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced the finalized capitation rates and payment policies for the 2024 Medicare...more
Rural emergency hospitals (REHs) are a new provider type that will allow Medicare to pay for emergency department and other outpatient hospital services in rural areas beginning on January 1, 2023, without requiring the...more
On August 5, 2020, CMS issued its final rule updating FY2021 payment rates used under the prospective payment system (PPS) for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs). The FY 2021 payment rates will be implemented to reflect the...more
n November 1, 2019, CMS posted the final rule establishing the payment rates for the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Payment System for calendar year (CY) 2020...more
On September 17, 2019, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) exceeded its authority and failed to follow the statutory process for setting...more
On November 13, 2018, CMS/HHS published in the Federal Register the Home Health Final Rule. 83 FR 56406 (Nov. 13, 2018). We provided an overview of the proposed rule in Payment Matters on September 14, 2018. Home health...more
CMS updated payment rates, implemented statutory changes, and continued to provide guidance on quality reporting measures and requirements in the FY 2019 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update Final Rule published on...more
The Final Rule. In a Final Rule posted by CMS last Tuesday, July 24, 2018, CMS announced that $10.4 billion in “risk adjustment transfers” (“Risk Transfers”) for benefit year 2017 (as calculated pursuant to the Affordable...more
On Tuesday, July 24, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule intended to clarify the program methodology and reinstate payments under the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) permanent risk adjustment...more
This is the first in a series of alerts from Seyfarth’s Health Law practice highlighting significant changes in health care regulations and policy as providers and other industry participants enter 2018. ...more
CMS released its Final Rule canceling the Episode Payment Model (EPM) and Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Model (CR Incentive Payment Model). This was an expected result following August's proposed rule to cancel...more
On November 1, 2017, CMS released the Final Rule for the 2018 home health prospective payment system rate update, including the CY 2019 case mix adjustment methodology refinements. CMS also made changes to the Value Based...more
Last week, home health agencies welcomed the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) decision to drop a controversial proposed payment model and leave largely unchanged the current payment system. Responding to...more
In a move the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services cites as a reaction to President Donald Trump's regulatory freeze, CMS announced that implementation of certain minor aspects of the final rule expanding Medicare...more
On November 14, 2016, CMS published its final rule implementing the physician payment provisions of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (“MACRA”). The rule became effective January 1, 2017. Data collection from...more
If you are a physician, mid-level provider, or work with those providers, then you have been bombarded with new acronyms for new programs and promises to remove older acronyms from your Medicare vocabulary. Medicare...more
CMS recently published its final outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) rule, which includes its new policies governing payment related to services furnished at off-campus provider-based departments (OPBDs). 81 Fed....more
On November 1, 2016, CMS published its final policy changes, quality provisions, and payment rates for 2017, as they relate to the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center...more
On October 28, 2016, CMS issued the final rule updating the payment policies and rates under the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Prospective Payment System (PPS) for renal dialysis services beginning in CY 2017. The rule also...more