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16 Dec 2019, 3:13 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  TX HHSC now administers and provides the services previously provided by DADS as part of its broader operation of state supported living centers; provision of mental health and substance use services; regulation of child care and nursing facilities; and administration of hundreds of other programs for people needing supplemental nutrition benefits, Medicaid and certain other assistance including those previously provided by DADS. [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 9:05 pm by Simone Hussussian
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency that administers the ACA marketplace subsidies, could attempt to restrict silver loading by requiring insurance companies to spread the cost of CSRs among all plan types. [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 4:02 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Total U.S. national healthcare spending in 2018 grew 4.6 percent according to a study conducted by the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). [read post]
7 Dec 2019, 9:54 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer has worked extensively with domestic and international hospitals, health care systems, clinics, skilled nursing, long term care, rehabilitation and other health care providers and facilities; medical staff, accreditation, peer review and quality committees and organizations; billing, utilization management, management services organizations, group purchasing organizations; pharmaceutical, pharmacy, and prescription benefit management and organizations; consultants;… [read post]
The application was designed to collect information regarding utilization management and review activities and report the information to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and typically contained the names, addresses, Social Security and Medicaid numbers, and treatment and diagnosis information for beneficiaries of the program. [read post]
21 Nov 2019, 9:17 am by Emily Burchfield, Guest Author
Both the Office of Inspector General (OIG) as well as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have proposed changes. [read post]
Comments may be submitted electronically to www.regulations.gov, or by mail to: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services, Attention: CMS-9915-P, P.O. [read post]
On November 12, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for public inspection entitled Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation. [read post]
15 Nov 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
They charged up to $380 per hour for work traditionally handled by dozens of career civil servants in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ communications department. [read post]
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]
4 Nov 2019, 11:51 am by Thomas Dowdell (US)
On October 31, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final rule with comment period that sets forth updates to the home health prospective payment system (HH PPS) for calendar year (CY) 2020 and includes other policy changes for home health agencies (HHA). [read post]
25 Oct 2019, 2:17 pm by Jeff Wurzburg (US)
” The White House also continues to work on several healthcare proposals in close coordination with the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma. [read post]
22 Oct 2019, 8:01 am by Debra A. McCurdy
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that commits the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to taking a series of regulatory and subregulatory actions intended to enhance the fiscal sustainability of the Medicare program, reduce regulatory burdens on providers, and increase beneficiary choice. [read post]
17 Oct 2019, 4:33 am by Kellie McTammany
</p> </div> <div style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:35px;" data-rss-type="text"> <p style="margin:0px;"> There aren’t many options for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to discipline hospices. [read post]
16 Oct 2019, 2:33 pm by Robert Liles
  Every Dental Practice Must Develop and Implement an Effective Compliance Program: As you will recall, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG), issued voluntary Compliance Guidance for Individual and Small Group Physician Practices” almost 20 years ago, in 2000.[6]  As the seven element compliance guidance reflects, the term “physician” is defined to include “a doctor of dental… [read post]
On Thursday, October 17, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) will publish in the Federal Register two proposals to implement major changes to Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) regulations. [read post]
On October 9, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued two sweeping proposals aimed at revising the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) regulations to adapt to and promote the US health care system’s transformation to value-based payment and delivery models.[1] The proposed rules are… [read post]
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced proposed changes to modernize the regulations that interpret the Physician Self-Referral Law (the Stark Law) and the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute. [read post]
8 Oct 2019, 2:00 pm by Salma Mokbel
(October 8, 2019):  On April 16th, 2018, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), issued a Final Rule entitled, “Medicare Program; Contract Year 2019 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage, Medicare Cost Plan, Medicare Fee-for-Service, the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs, and… [read post]
2 Oct 2019, 11:25 am by Whittel &#38; Melton, LLC
Health & Human Services (HHS) Inspector’s General Office and U.S. attorneys’ offices. [read post]