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1 Oct 2019, 9:05 pm by Simone Hussussian
But this veil on health care pricing would be lifted under a new rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). [read post]
30 Sep 2019, 2:08 pm by Robert Liles
(September 30, 2019):  On September 5, 2019, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG) published an HHS-OIG Data Brief entitled “The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Could Use Comprehensive Error Rate Testing Data To Identify High-Risk Home Health Agencies. [read post]
26 Sep 2019, 6:55 am by Jordan Ross
Waivers are granted by the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), typically to allow innovation in health care administration. [read post]
18 Sep 2019, 2:08 pm by admin
Big Changes to CMS Form 855 are on the Horizon (September 18, 2019):  On September 10, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), published a Final Rule in the Federal Register entitled “Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Programs; Program Integrity Enhancements to the Provider Enrollment Process. [read post]
18 Sep 2019, 2:08 pm by Robert Liles
(September 18, 2019):  On September 10, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), published a Final Rule in the Federal Register entitled “Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Programs; Program Integrity Enhancements to the Provider Enrollment Process. [read post]
11 Sep 2019, 7:22 am by Paulette Thomas
” The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and all 50 states have regulations governing the use of and reimbursement for telehealth services, and commercial payers are increasingly covering these services. [read post]
19 Aug 2019, 10:29 am by Debra A. McCurdy
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will increase Medicare inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) prospective payment system (PPS) payments by 1.5%, or $65 million, in fiscal year (FY) 2020 under a recently-published final rule. [read post]
13 Aug 2019, 1:28 pm by Robert Liles
  While the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has been fairly progressive in approving the coverage of certain genetic tests for diagnostic purposes, it has been slow to authorize the coverage of genetic screening tests. [read post]
16 Jul 2019, 2:01 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
She regularly helps employer and other health benefit plan sponsors and vendors, health industry, insurers, health IT, life sciences and other health and insurance industry clients design, document and enforce plans, practices, policies, systems and solutions; manage regulatory, contractual and other legal and operational compliance; vendors and suppliers; deal with Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare/Medicaid Advantage, ERISA,… [read post]
10 Jul 2019, 3:33 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
She regularly helps employer and other health benefit plan sponsors and vendors, health industry, insurers, health IT, life sciences and other health and insurance industry clients design, document and enforce plans, practices, policies, systems and solutions; manage regulatory, contractual and other legal and operational compliance; vendors and suppliers; deal with Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare/Medicaid Advantage, ERISA,… [read post]
1 Jul 2019, 11:27 am by opedit
The government reduced its payment rates this year by about 4 percent per enrollee because of changes in federal laws passed in 2006 and 2008, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. [read post]
21 Jun 2019, 7:03 am by Sean McDonough
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also may issue fines and citations for violating privacy laws in nursing homes. [read post]
19 Jun 2019, 9:22 am by Lebowitz & Mzhen
The study analyzed over 37,000 emergency room admissions that were reported to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). [read post]
4 Jun 2019, 8:02 am by Emily Burchfield, Guest Author
In May of 2018, a special fraud alert was issued by the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate relationships between labs and physicians. [read post]
29 May 2019, 2:06 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
She regularly helps employer and other health benefit plan sponsors and vendors, health industry, insurers, health IT, life sciences and other health and insurance industry clients design, document and enforce plans, practices, policies, systems and solutions; manage regulatory, contractual and other legal and operational compliance; vendors and suppliers; deal with Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare/Medicaid Advantage, ERISA,… [read post]
24 May 2019, 10:46 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced its collection of a $3 million settlement payment from a radiology provider that also allowed hackers to breach its electronic protected health information (ePHI) by failing to conduct and respond to HIPAA-required risk assessments, OCR’s announcement late yesterday of the MIE Agreement makes clear that HIPAA entities need to tighten their HIPAA risk assessment, documentation and… [read post]
22 May 2019, 12:04 pm by Jordan Ross
UK pharmaceutical giant Mallinckrodt filed suit against the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) on Tuesday to defend profitability of their drug, Acthar Gel Injection (Acthar). [read post]
9 May 2019, 8:06 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
On Wednesday, May 8, 2019, Health and Human Services(“HHS”) Secretary Alex Azar announced the adoption of a Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Regulation to Require Drug Pricing Transparency Final Rule (the “Rule”) by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) requiring direct-to-consumer television advertisements for prescription pharmaceuticals covered by… [read post]