Alston & Bird Healthcare Week in Review
Below is Alston & Bird’s Healthcare Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee...
View ArticleOIG Proposes New Exception for Dialysis-Related Telehealth Technologies
The Situation: Telehealth services continue to evolve and show promise for improving quality care, care coordination, and access to services while also reducing the costs of care. The Action: The...
View ArticleCMS Continues 340B Drug Reimbursement Reductions Despite Ongoing Litigation
In the 2018 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS) final rule, CMS finalized a policy to reduce payment for separately payable outpatient drugs purchased by certain hospitals under the...
View ArticleLatest HHS Financial Report Highlights Medicaid Eligibility Errors – and...
On November 19, 2019, CMS announced key results from the 2019 HHS Agency Financial Report, which generally provides fiscal and high-level performance data for HHS for the reporting period of October 1,...
View ArticleGeorgia Releases Section 1332 and 1115 Waivers
On November 4, Georgia released two draft waiver applications for public comment—a Section 1332 State Relief and Empowerment Waiver (“1332 waiver”) to restructure the state’s individual insurance...
View ArticleNew Disclosure Requirements to be Phased-In to CMS Enrollment and...
On September 5, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a final rule (“Final Rule”) effective November 4, 2019, which increases disclosure requirements for the provider...
View ArticleWashington Healthcare Update - November 2019 #4
This week in Washington: The House and Senate are out for Thanksgiving recess this week. Congress - Hearings/Markups - House Committee on the Judiciary: “The Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the...
View ArticleCMS Issues New Final Rule on Pricing Transparency
On November 15, CMS issued the Price Transparency Requirements for Hospitals to Make Standards Charges Public Final Rule (“Final Rule”), as directed by President Donald Trump’s Executive Order on...
View ArticleCMS Proposes Increased Scrutiny of Medicaid Supplemental Payments and Related...
In what is widely considered to signal intensified focus by the Federal government on Medicaid supplemental payments and related State Medicaid financing mechanisms, the Centers for Medicare &...
View ArticleAGG Food and Drug Newsletter - November 2019
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food and Drug Newsletter is a monthly update of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community, including regular updates on legislative initiatives...
View ArticleCMS Internal Memorandum Clarifies Impact of Supreme Court Decision on...
The Deputy General Counsel and Chief Legal Officers at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued an Internal Memorandum...
View ArticleBirmingham Medical News: CMS and OIG Issue Proposed Changes to the Stark,...
On October 9, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) issued proposed changes to the Physician...
View ArticleHealth Care Law Perspectives - November 2019 • Volume I
CMS’ 340B Rate Cut Continues to Dampen Hospital Outpatient Expansion Efforts - Hospitals hoping to benefit from favorable 340B drug pricing when acquiring independent physician practices for conversion...
View ArticleCMS Finalizes Highly Anticipated Hospital Price Transparency Rule
On November 15, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a rule requiring hospitals to make public a list of standard charges for items and services provided by such...
View ArticleCMS Issues Final Rule on Price Transparency by Healthcare Facilities
On November 15, 2019, CMS issued a final rule pursuant to President Trump's June 24, 2019, Executive Order to ensure price transparency by healthcare facilities. This price transparency rule will go...
View ArticleCMS Finalizes Hospital Pricing Transparency Rule
On November 15, 2019, CMS published a controversial final rule intended to improve hospital pricing transparency for consumers....By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
View ArticleGlobal and Professional Options Direct Contracting Model RFA and LOI Now Active
On April 21, 2019, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (“CMMI”) announced the CMS Primary Cares Initiative – a voluntary, risk-based initiative to transform the Medicare program’s...
View ArticleCMS proposes new Stark Law exception for limited remuneration to a physician
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...
View ArticleGrim way to increase nursing home profit: Toss out frail seniors and disabled
Profit-hungry nursing home operators persist in throwing out vulnerable seniors and disabled patients from needed care, too often because the facilities find they can get higher-paying patients to fill...
View ArticleHealth Care and Price Transparency: The Latest Summary
Federal executive agencies recently published two rules, one final and one proposed, aimed at publicizing the various costs associated with health care. A final rule, promulgated by the Department of...
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