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CMS Proposes Increases to Hospice Care Rates for FY 2026

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On April 11, 2025, CMS issued a proposed rule that “would update the hospice wage index, payment rates, and cap amount for FY 2026” as required under the Social Security Act, clarify payment regulations on admission to...more

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Changes coming to the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute regulations

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On October 9, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued long-awaited proposed changes “to modernize and clarify the...more

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New Safe Harbors In A Storm of Risk and Regulations: A Review of the OIG’s Proposed Changes to the Federal Anti-Kickback Laws

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In an effort to modernize and clarify a statute that looms large in the minds of health care providers across the nation, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently...more

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OIG proposes changes to existing Anti-Kickback Statute safe harbors

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On October 9, 2019, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) released proposed changes interpreting the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and its regulatory safe harbors, including changes to several existing safe harbors. ...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

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

CMS Proposes to Newly Define Commercially Reasonable, and Tweak Definition of Fair Market Value, in New Physician Self-Referral...

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On October 17, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) formally published its proposed rule (the PSR Rule) to update exceptions to the Physician Self-Referral Law (PSR Law, also known as the Stark Law). For...more

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CMS Proposes Rule Clarifying Physician Self-Referral Law Rules for Group Practice Profit Sharing

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On October 9, 2019 the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule making changes to the Physician Self-Referral Law, also called the Stark Law (PSR...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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HHS tackles barriers to value-based care: Part 1 – new protections for value-based arrangements under Stark and the AKS and other...

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Nearly a decade after the Affordable Care Act signaled a transition of the U.S. health care system to value-based care, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published on October 9 two long-awaited proposed rules...more

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CMS Continues Shift toward Value-Based Payments with New Home Health Groupings Model in Proposal - Healthcare Alert

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On July 2, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its annual proposed rule outlining both payment and policy changes for home health agencies. In a press release announcing the proposed rule, CMS...more

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