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CMS Issues IPPS and LTCH Proposed Rule for FY 2026

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On Friday, April 11, 2025, CMS issued its annual Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS) Proposed Rule for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 (the Proposed...more

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Trump Administration Changes Seek to Avoid Notice and Comment Hurdles

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Our Health Care and Health Care Litigation Groups examine a policy move by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that will allow the department to forgo notice and comment procedures for many of its regulations....more

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Price Transparency: A Regulatory Priority

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The Trump administration is beginning to lay out its regulatory (and deregulatory) priorities, and on February 25, 2025, the administration spotlighted one of those priorities in an executive order on price transparency....more

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Regs & Eggs with a Side of DOGE

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In the health policy world, nothing gets folks like me more “excited” than expecting and then seeing a new healthcare regulation pop up in the Federal Register. While the content of the reg is usually what public stakeholders...more

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Post-Chevron Health Care Regulations: The Dawn of a New Day

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On June 28, the US Supreme Court overturned the Chevron doctrine — the legal principle that the judiciary should defer to a federal agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. Chevron reflected the view...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The Regulatory Race Is On: The Biden Administration Sprints to Issue Key Health Policies

The upcoming election, and the approaching end of the President’s four-year term, introduce additional dynamics into the agencies’ rulemaking process and even the guidance process. From now through the November election, the...more

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CMS Revises Stark Law Indirect Compensation Arrangement Definition, Again

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The CY 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule includes further revisions to the definition of the term “indirect compensation arrangement” under the federal physician self-referral prohibition (Stark Law). Less than...more

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CMS Corrects Inadvertent Omissions in Recent Stark Law Regulatory Amendments, Clarifies Reach of the Prohibition Related to...

Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final rules for the 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS Final Rule) and 2022 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System...more

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[Webinar] The Future of CMS: A Conversation with Three Former CMS Administrators - July 15th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET

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Epstein Becker Green invites you to join former CMS Administrators Tom Scully, Leslie Norwalk, and Marilyn Tavenner for a unique panel discussion on their thoughts, advice, and predictions for President Biden’s newly...more

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CMS Proposes Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Part D Programs for CY 2021 and 2022

In an evening email that is sure to ruin the weekend for many, CMS announced on February 5, 2020, that it is proposing changes to the Medicare Advantage and Part D Programs for CY 2021 and 2022. CMS will not issue a Call...more

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CMS proposes new Stark Law exception for limited remuneration to a physician

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On October 9, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS) released proposed changes to the regulations interpreting the Physician Self-Referral Law (Stark Law), including a new proposed exception for limited...more

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CMS clarifies the process for correcting mistakes under the Stark Law

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On October 9, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published proposed changes to the regulations interpreting the Physician Self-Referral Law (Stark Law)....more

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CMS proposes to change the way group practices can pay profit shares to physicians under Stark Law

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Part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed changes to the regulations interpreting the Physician Self-Referral Law (the “Stark Law”), released on October 9, 2019, include changes to the special...more

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CMS proposes to recalibrate the scope and application of the Stark regulations

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As part of the long-awaited proposed changes “to modernize and clarify” the regulations that interpret the Physician Self-Referral Law (the “Stark Law”) released on October 9, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...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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CMS proposes changes to and clarifications of key Stark Law terms

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Part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed changes “to modernize and clarify” regulations interpreting the Physician Self-Referral Law (the “Stark Law”), released on October 9, 2019, contain...more

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Possible Changes to Stark Law in 2019

Last summer The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) solicited input on potential amendments to the federal Physician Self-Referral Law (the Stark Law)....more

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