Key Takeaways From the CY 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule
On July 14, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule (the “Proposed Rule”) announcing policy changes for Medicare payments under the physician fee schedule...
View ArticleWhen AI Becomes Part of Medicine: Why CMS’s AI Questions Matter Now
Less than a month remains for physicians, health systems, technology companies, and other stakeholders to comment on several questions buried deep in a Request for Information (“RFI”) within the...
View ArticleEn Banc Fifth Circuit Rejects Key QPA Rules in TMA III
On Aug. 11, 2026, the en banc Fifth Circuit issued its long-awaited decision in Texas Medical Association v. HHS, commonly known as TMA III. The court held that federal agencies departed from the No...
View ArticleTightening the Reins on Remote Monitoring: CMS Proposes Major Changes to RPM...
On July 16, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its Calendar Year (CY) 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule....By: Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
View ArticleDialysis & Nephrology Digest - July 2026
CMS Signals a Major Shift for Remote Patient Monitoring - Just one year after expanding access to remote patient monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM), CMS is proposing significant...
View ArticleModernizing How Medicare Pays Physicians
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its proposed 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. CMS recognizes that healthcare delivery has evolved while Medicare’s physician...
View ArticleCMS Issues Proposed Calendar Year 2027 Payment Rules: Outpatient Prospective...
On July 7, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published in the Federal Register the proposed rules for calendar year (CY) 2027 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment...
View ArticleCMS Signals Major Shift in Medicare Remote Monitoring Requirements
Medicare’s proposed 2027 Physician Fee Schedule would require closer physician involvement in remote monitoring and could significantly affect existing business arrangements between physician practices...
View Article2027 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule: CMS Proposes Mandatory 340B Claims...
On July 16, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the 2027 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule. Among other provisions, CMS has now proposed to convert a previously...
View ArticleHealthcare & Life Sciences: Drug Pricing Digest - July 2026 #2
Our Drug Pricing and Market Access team tracks recent developments in healthcare reform, the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, the 340B Program, Medicare, and state law....By: Latham & Watkins LLP
View ArticleThe 5% practice expense cap: Why proposed 2027 numbers don’t tell the whole...
CMS is proposing a major overhaul to how it calculates indirect practice expense (PE), which represents the overhead costs such as rent, staff, and other office expenses built into the Medicare...
View ArticleCMS Issues CY 2027 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule
On July 14, 2026, CMS published the Calendar Year (CY) 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Proposed Rule (CMS-1848-P). The proposed rule would, among other things, make changes to Medicare...
View ArticleBack for seconds: The MSSP proposed changes in the CY 2027 PFS proposed rule
Last week’s Regs & Eggs took a big bite out the calendar year (CY) 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule, the major Medicare payment rule impacting physician and other clinician...
View ArticleCMS Proposes Payment Frameworks for “Software as a Medical Service”
On July 2, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the calendar year (CY) 2027 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule and on July 14, 2026,...
View ArticleProposed CMS CY 2027 Physician Fee Schedule Rule Tightens RPM Requirements
The CY 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule published on July 16, 2026, has proposed a significant set of changes to remote monitoring services. These proposed changes follow Office of...
View ArticleCY 2027 OPPS Proposed Rule: Major Payment Changes Ahead for Hospitals—Is Your...
On July 7, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its proposed rule updating the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) for Calendar Year (CY) 2027. The...
View ArticleMedicare Proposes Significant Restrictions On And Lower Device Reimbursement...
On July 14, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Calendar Year (CY) 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Proposed Rule (Proposed Rule). While the Proposed Rule...
View ArticleCMS Issues CY 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule. It includes slight reductions in conversion factors for qualifying and...
View ArticleHealth Care Week in Review | CMS Releases CY 2027 Physician Fee Schedule...
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee...
View ArticleCMS releases CY 2027 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule
On July 14, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the calendar year (CY) 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule, which includes policies related to...
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