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On November 1, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule that updates the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) rates and policies for calendar year (CY) 2020 and expands Medicare coverage to opioid treatment programs (OTPs) that treat beneficiaries with opioid use disorder (OUD). [read post]
20 Dec 2016, 10:56 am by Debra A. McCurdy
The GAO recommends that CMS add information to the Five-Star System that allows homes to be compared nationally (which the Department of Health and Humans Services (HHS) contends is difficult because of variations in state surveys). [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 1:45 pm by Jason E. Christ
On February 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule outlining its audit methodology and related policies for its Medicare Advantage (MA) Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV) program. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 5:00 am by Ray Mullman
McKnight's had an article about thenew GAO Report showing that The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services need to make serious improvements in the tools it uses to evaluate the quality of nursing home care. [read post]
2 Oct 2019, 11:25 am by Whittel & Melton, LLC
Health & Human Services (HHS) Inspector’s General Office and U.S. attorneys’ offices. [read post]
12 Aug 2014, 2:53 pm by Todd Rodriguez
   The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced in 2009 that ICD-10 would be the standard code set (required by HIPAA) to replace ICD-9. [read post]
2 Jun 2020, 9:02 am by Robbie Kenney
Senator Pennacchio today asked the administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to assume oversight of New Jersey’s long-term care facilities. [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 10:18 am by Thomas Dowdell (US)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued several blanket waivers of Medicare requirements as a result of Hurricane Harvey. [read post]
7 Jan 2015, 2:14 pm by Elizabeth Litten
” *          Interestingly, the regulation references “personal health information”, rather than “protected health information”, the term used by the Office for Civil Rights (which, like CMS, resides in the Department of Health and Human Services) in the HIPAA regulations, but the widely-used PHI acronym works for both, so what the heck? [read post]
6 Nov 2011, 4:01 am
Having steps taken at important federal agencies—like the Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services—would go a long way to cracking down on the misuse of these drugs, which have deadly effect of the lives of nursing home residents. [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 1:32 pm by Jennifer Papapanagiotou
The declaration gives Secretary Alex Azar of the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) the power to waive certain Federal requirements in Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP in order to address the outbreak. [read post]
7 Mar 2023, 7:56 am by Alexis Boaz
Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued a report detailing the administrative hurdles CMS might face when implementing the Part B provisions. [read post]
25 Sep 2014, 12:27 pm
On August 29, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule allowing providers more flexibility in meeting the meaningful-use requirements for the electronic health records (EHR) incentive program. [read post]
9 May 2018, 2:00 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
The site uses a file from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of the U.S. [read post]
Just in time for the holidays, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued the Contract Year 2024 Proposed Rule for Medicare Advantage organizations (“MAOs”) and Part D sponsors (the “Proposed Rule”). [read post]
14 Apr 2017, 12:07 pm by Debra A. McCurdy
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has published a final rule intended to help improve the risk pool and stabilize the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Insurance Exchanges for 2018 – even as CMS contends that consumers “have faced double-digit premium increases, fewer plans to choose from, and a market that continues to be threatened by insurance issuer exits. [read post]