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2 Feb 2022, 1:16 pm by Caitlin Lentz
” On January 20, 2022, CMS released updated guidance through its evolving “External FAQ: CMS Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination Final Rule. [read post]
30 Oct 2015, 1:02 pm by Debra A. McCurdy
  According to CMS, the waivers “are critical to providing stakeholders with flexibility necessary for innovative care redesign. [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 3:04 pm by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
In other news—we’ve blogged many times about the retiring Baby Boomer generation and the pressure it will exert on health care providers, particularly long term care providers. [read post]
24 Sep 2010, 12:06 pm by The Health Law Partners
"The SRDP is open to all health care providers of services and suppliers, whether individuals or entities, and is not limited to any particular industry, medical specialty, or type of service. [read post]
5 Aug 2015, 1:30 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, J.D., Ph.D.
This model encourages beneficiaries to receive palliative care services that are provided by the MCCM participating hospice concurrentlywith services from their curative care provider. [read post]
3 Nov 2015, 4:25 am by Catherine A. Hurley
Today the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule that would modify the discharge planning conditions of participation (COPs) for hospitals, including long-term care hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities, critical access hospitals, and home health agencies (HHAs). [read post]
6 Jun 2019, 3:55 pm by Debra A. McCurdy
”  In particular, CMS seeks new ideas for: Streamlining reporting requirements, documentation requirements, or processes to monitor compliance with CMS rules and regulations; Aligning Medicare, Medicaid and other payer coding, payment, and documentation requirements and processes; Enabling operational flexibility, feedback mechanisms, and data sharing that would enhance patient care, support the clinician-patient relationship, and facilitate individual… [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 3:11 pm
EHRs will improve the quality of health care for the citizens of West Virginia and make their care more efficient. [read post]
31 Mar 2015, 7:12 am by Debra A. McCurdy
 The proposed rule also would reduce the overall number of meaningful objectives to eight to focus on advanced use of EHRs (Protect Patient Health Information, Electronic Prescribing (eRx), Clinical Decision Support (CDS), Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE), Patient Electronic Access to Health Information, Coordination of Care through Patient Engagement, Health Information Exchange (HIE), and Public Health and Clinical Data Registry… [read post]
14 Sep 2011, 3:05 am by Robert Kraft
“These efforts are designed to also encourage providers to deliver safe, patient-centered care that consumers can rely on and will motivate improvement across our health care system,” CMS Administrator Don Berwick said in a statement. [read post]
Health Care Providers Must Comply with CMS Vaccine Mandate Across the United States Following decisions by district courts in Missouri and Louisiana, since November 30, 2021, enforcement of the CMS Rule has been blocked in about half of the states. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 7:52 am by Debra A. McCurdy
Specifically, the CMS Office of E-Health Standards and Services (OESS) will not initiate enforcement action until March 31, 2013, with respect to HIPAA-covered entities (including health plans, health care providers, and clearinghouses, as applicable) that are not in compliance with the two operating rules published July 8, 2011. [read post]
8 Feb 2016, 7:35 am by Debra A. McCurdy
With regard to face-to-face encounters, the final rule provides that for initial orders of home health services, the physician must document that a face-to-face encounter that is related to the primary reason the beneficiary requires home health services occurred no more than 90 days before or 30 days after the start of services (in alignment with Medicare timeframes). [read post]
8 Feb 2016, 7:35 am by Debra A. McCurdy
With regard to face-to-face encounters, the final rule provides that for initial orders of home health services, the physician must document that a face-to-face encounter that is related to the primary reason the beneficiary requires home health services occurred no more than 90 days before or 30 days after the start of services (in alignment with Medicare timeframes). [read post]
1 Jun 2023, 8:39 am by Allen R. Killworth
The revised Health Care Services rules make changes to nearly every regulation in Chapter 3701-84, many of a substantial nature. [read post]
The post COVID-19 Update: CMS Approves First Section 1135 Waiver appeared first on Health Law Pulse. [read post]
28 Jul 2017, 5:37 am by Debra A. McCurdy
Finally, CMS again includes a request for suggestions on how it can reduce burdens on providers in a way that increases quality of care and decreases costs. [read post]