On February 21, 2024, CMS published a transmittal on its website with instructions for Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) to implement CMS’s final rule, issued June 9, 2023, concerning the treatment of the Part C days...more
On September 27, 2023, Judge Royce Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit challenging HHS’s calculation of the standardized amount used in calculating Medicare Inpatient...more
On September 1, 2023, the D.C. Circuit affirmed the D.C. District Court’s decision in Pomona Valley Hosp. Med. Ctr. v. Azar, 2020 WL 5816486, at *1 (D.D.C. Sept. 30, 2020) requiring CMS to produce affirmative evidence as to...more
On September 30, 2021, the Provider Reimbursement Review Board (the “Board”) issued a revised set of rules that become effective November 1, 2021. These new and revised rules affect all new and some pending Medicare Part A...more
On June 16, 2021, the Provider Reimbursement Review Board (PRRB) issued proposed changes to its rules and an order requiring all submissions for new and/or pending appeals to be filed electronically using the Office of...more
On March 29, 2021, Judge Margaret B. Seymour, in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, set aside a decision from CMS’s Provider Reimbursement Review Board (Board) denying reimbursement relating...more
In a significant break from preceding court decisions, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia recently struck down CMS's "must bill" policy, which requires that Medicare providers bill Medicaid and...more
On Thursday, February 28, 2019, two years after hearing arguments in lead group cases, the Provider Reimbursement Review Board affirmed CMS’ approach to counting sequestered funds as part of provider revenue for hospice cap...more
On August 29, 2018, the Provider Reimbursement Review Board (PRRB) announced significant new changes to the rules governing its appeals, effective immediately. The rules apply to both newly filed and pending appeals, and...more
In a decision with implications that could go back 35 years, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected a CMS interpretation of its reopening rules as that interpretation affects current...more
On April 23, 2018, CMS released CMS-1727-R (the Ruling), which announced that it will follow the United States District Court’s decision in Banner Heart Hospital v. Burwell, 201 F. Supp. 3d 131 (D.D.C. 2016). The Banner...more
Last week, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia denied CMS’s request to remand to the Provider Reimbursement Review Board (PRRB) the claims of several hospitals who sought expedited judicial review...more
On March 21, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that a hospital lacked standing to challenge a decision of the Provider Reimbursement Review Board (the “PRRB”), since the hospital failed to...more
On July 25, 2016, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued an opinion favoring provider flexibility in the reasonable collection of Medicare bad debt. Winder HMA, LLC, et al. v. Sylvia Burwell. The...more
In Banner Heart Hospital, et al. v. Burwell, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (Court) held on August 19, 2016, that the Provider Reimbursement Review Board (PRRB) incorrectly declined to hear an...more
You can tell by its name that you won’t like the Medicare “self-disallowance” rule. The federal district court for D.C. didn’t like it, either, and gave a group of Banner Health hospitals summary judgment that the rule was...more
On February 22, 2016, in Regents of the University of California v. Burwell, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted summary judgment in favor of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary)...more
Effective July 1, 2015, the Provider Reimbursement Review Board (PRRB or Board) has promulgated new rules regarding the reinstatement and withdrawal of appeals before the Board. The most significant change is a new rule...more
CMS recently issued Ruling 1498-R2 (Ruling), dated April 22, 2015, amending its 2010 Ruling 1498-R. The new Ruling addresses the calculation of the Medicare fraction of the disproportionate share hospital (DSH) adjustment for...more
On August 6, 2014, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia enjoined CMS, its Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs), and the Provider Reimbursement Review Board (PRRB) from applying the...more
On Tuesday of last week the D.C. Circuit Court ruled that the Provider Review Reimbursement Board doesn’t know what’s new. It reversed the PRRB’s decision, along with the District Court’s decision that upheld it. In doing...more
On May 23, 2014, the CMS Office of Hearings released Alert 10, notifying providers of an important new 60 day deadline concerning certain appeals before the Provider Reimbursement Review Board (PRRB or Board). By the end of...more
Recently, on May 23, the Provider Reimbursement Review Board (PRRB) issued its latest alert, Alert 10 (Alert), in an email blast. As of the writing of this article, the Alert had not been posted on the PRRB’s website....more
On October 17, President Obama signed the bill titled the “Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014” (the “Act”) ending the 16-day government shutdown and lifting the nation’s debt limit. The Senate voted 81-18 in favor of the...more
Medicare claims processing activities continue during the shutdown. PRRB appeal deadlines, although temporarily suspended, will become due immediately on the day the government reopens. Federal court deadlines remain in...more