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6 Jan 2021, 8:04 am
In this post, Karishma Gadhia, an associate in the litigation and arbitration team at CMS and Tobias Seger, a trainee at CMS, comment on the decision handed down in early November 2020 by the UK Supreme Court in the matter of Secretary of State for Health and others v Servier Laboratories Ltd and others [2020] UKSC 44. [read post]
5 Jan 2021, 10:25 am
The 2020 measures focus on reducing the administrative burden on providers, prioritizing health outcomes, and encouraging digital innovation, particularly regarding data collection and evaluation. [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 9:03 pm
CMS Administrator Seema Verma called the relaxation of current health care delivery requirements an “unprecedented” effort to allow frontline providers to “focus on patient care in the most flexible and innovative ways possible. [read post]
30 Dec 2020, 9:05 pm
The CMS COVID-19 document also references guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which provides hospital visitation recommendations as part of its COVID-19 infection control guidance. [read post]
29 Dec 2020, 4:00 pm
March 27 – CARES Act – Verrill commentary: With CARES Act, Congress Provides Retirement Plan Relief and Group Health Plan Changes The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act includes several provisions with implications for employer retirement and health plans, as well as a temporary tax benefit for employer payments towards student loans. [read post]
28 Dec 2020, 10:19 am
Health Care Fraud (18 U.S.C. [read post]
28 Dec 2020, 2:00 am
Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has dealt with a wide variety of discrimination claims against healthcare providers. [read post]
18 Dec 2020, 12:42 pm
Additionally, CMS announced partnerships with CVS and Walgreens to provide vaccines at no cost to seniors and staff in long-term facilities. [read post]
16 Dec 2020, 8:32 am
The PFS final rule will make certain non-physician provider flexibilities that were established during the COVID-19 pandemic permanent so they may continue to provide care without additional Medicare restrictions. [read post]
14 Dec 2020, 11:46 am
As we recently flagged, even amidst the chaos of a global pandemic, multiple HHS agencies, including the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and most recently, CMS and OIG, have focused their attention in 2020 on facilitating and enforcing patients’ rights to access their health information, encouraging interoperability among health… [read post]
14 Dec 2020, 7:42 am
On December 10, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a proposed rule to revise the prior authorization process and to add new requirements for state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”) fee-for-service programs, Medicaid managed care plans, CHIP managed care entities, and Qualified Health Plan issuers on the Federally-facilitated Exchanges to help improve the exchange of… [read post]
14 Dec 2020, 5:09 am
The overarching goal of the proposed rule is to get patients more engaged in their own healthcare, provide easier access to coordinated care, and reduce the burdensome regulations that have an impact on quality of care. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 8:33 am
” According to CMS, the purpose of the proposed rule is “[t]o drive interoperability, improve care coordination, reduce burden on providers and payers, and empower patients. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 7:37 am
The main goals of the rule are to (1) provide patients more choice in where they can receive affordable, quality health care, and (2) reduce their out-of-pocket costs. [read post]
30 Nov 2020, 7:24 am
And direct public funding for health-related R&D is also provided by other agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services, including the CDC, FDA, and Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), as well as the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Energy. [read post]
25 Nov 2020, 3:31 pm
The post CMS Announces New Acute Hospital Care At Home Program and Additional Flexibility in the Hospitals Without Walls Program appeared first on Health Law Pulse. [read post]
23 Nov 2020, 3:51 pm
In promulgating such an exception, CMS embraced the blunt criticism of commenters that “the current [Stark Law] prohibitions are . . . antithetical to the stated goals of policy makers . . . for health care delivery and payment reform. [read post]
10 Nov 2020, 8:25 am
During her employment at the department, McDermott “had seen firsthand poor care being provided by Corizon Correctional Health Care, then known as CMS, and she began alerting corrections officials about the problems as early as 2009 following the unusually high number of inmate deaths the year before,” according to the article. [read post]
8 Nov 2020, 1:22 am
“COVID-19 Nursing Home Dataset,” Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, September 17, 2020, https://data.cms.gov/Special-Programs-Initiatives-COVID-19-Nursing-Home/COVID-19-Nursing-Home-Dataset/s2uc-8wxp Thousands more health care personnel in hospitals have also been sickened; however there is no comprehensive, accurate count of these numbers. [read post]
6 Nov 2020, 12:08 pm
While the lion’s share of the $175 billion appropriated to the Provider Relief Fun via the CARES Act and Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act (PPPHCEA) has already been spent, the FFCRA Relief Fund is intended to make available an additional $2 billion through a combination of FFCRA and PPPHCEA funds. [read post]
