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8 Sep 2020, 1:50 pm
In response, on September 1, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule (85 FR 54,327) that would establish an expedited Medicare coverage pathway for innovative medical devices, and codify, with some modification, the long-standing Program Integrity Manual standards to be used in making “reasonable and necessary” determinations under Section 1862(a)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act. [read post]
5 Sep 2020, 3:30 pm
In an analysis from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), 82% of nursing homes across the country were cited for infection control problems between 2013 and 2017. [read post]
4 Sep 2020, 12:30 pm
Comments may be electronically submitted at www.regulations.gov, or by regular mail to the following address: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services, Attention: CMS-3372-P, P.O. [read post]
4 Sep 2020, 9:01 am
On Wednesday, September 2, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the FY 2021 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTCH) final rule. [read post]
4 Sep 2020, 6:23 am
On August 31, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released an announcement regarding their newest proposed rule, the Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology (“MCIT”). [read post]
31 Aug 2020, 10:26 am
On August 27, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) filed an interim final rule with comment period (“IFC”), detailing new long-term care (“LTC”) facility COVID-19 testing requirements and strengthening enforcement of existing related facility reporting requirements. [read post]
28 Aug 2020, 1:47 pm
On Tuesday, August 25, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released an interim final rule that updates the Medicare Conditions of Participation to require all hospitals to which 42 CFR Part 482 applies, as well as critical access hospitals (“CAHs”), to electronically report information including the number of confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients, the number of ICU beds occupied, the number of… [read post]
27 Aug 2020, 9:05 pm
” The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that nursing homes are now required to test staff for COVID-19, offer testing to residents for COVID-19, and report testing data to the U.S. [read post]
27 Aug 2020, 8:19 am
Despite the ongoing public health emergency from the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (“COVID-19” or “COVID”), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) were encouraged by the Center for Program Integrity (“CPI”) to resume conducting Recovery Audit Contractor (“RAC”) and Medicare Administrative Contractor (“MAC”) audits. [read post]
Why is HHS blocking FDA from regulating some diagnostics, and how will this affect COVID-19 testing?
25 Aug 2020, 4:50 pm
And under the 1988 Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), most laboratories conducting LDTs need a certificate of compliance or accreditation every two years from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). [read post]
24 Aug 2020, 1:37 pm
On June 19, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule scaling back nondiscrimination regulations first released in 2016 to implement Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). [read post]
24 Aug 2020, 9:33 am
That’s the maximum penalty proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for failing to meet its reporting requirements. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 2:43 pm
In an analysis from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), 82% of nursing homes across the country were cited for infection control problems between 2013 and 2017. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 6:28 am
Federal data collected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) shows a mounting number of nursing homes have reported staff shortages in every category the agency is tracking. [read post]
19 Aug 2020, 4:02 pm
On August 17, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced it was resuming inspections of Medicare and Medicaid certified providers and suppliers, which had been suspended in late March in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency. [read post]
19 Aug 2020, 9:52 am
Earlier this month and with little fanfare, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would invoke CMS’s rarely used retroactive-rulemaking authority to essentially ensure that, despite the Supreme Court’s adverse rulemaking decision in Azar v. [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 5:35 am
“The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA / NCAL), representing more than 14,000 nursing homes and assisted living communities across the country that provide care to approximately five million people each year, released a report today showing nursing homes in the U.S. have experienced an alarming spike in new COVID cases due to community spread among the general population according to recent data recently released from the Centers… [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 5:35 am
“The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA / NCAL), representing more than 14,000 nursing homes and assisted living communities across the country that provide care to approximately five million people each year, released a report today showing nursing homes in the U.S. have experienced an alarming spike in new COVID cases due to community spread among the general population according to recent data recently released from the Centers… [read post]
17 Aug 2020, 2:21 pm
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recommends this if a nursing home has had no cases for two weeks, provided that visitors are tested prior to entry. [read post]
17 Aug 2020, 10:51 am
Throughout the onset of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a variety of temporary waivers that expanded reimbursement under Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP for telehealth services. [read post]
