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6 May 2019, 5:44 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, state insurance law and other private… [read post]
6 May 2019, 2:55 pm by Thomas Dowdell (US)
On May 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its long-awaited draft “Guidance for Hospital Co-location with Other Hospitals or Healthcare Facilities. [read post]
5 May 2019, 9:05 pm by Allison K. Hoffman
You can choose your hospital, imaging center, pharmacy, urgent care facility, lab, and outpatient surgical center. [read post]
2 May 2019, 3:00 pm by Gail L. Daubert and Debra A. McCurdy
Agency Promises More Frequent Drug/Device HCPCS Code Update Opportunities, Bars MACs from Adopting New Blanket Noncoverage Policies without Evidence Review   On May 2, 2019, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma outlined new improvements to the HCPCS coding and local coverage decision processes that are intended to “ensure safe and effective treatments are readily accessible to beneficiaries without delaying… [read post]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its proposed rule to update the Medicare acute inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective payment system (PPS) for fiscal year (FY) 2020. [read post]
1 May 2019, 4:39 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
As the person responsible for GAG’s finances, Cooper was required to withhold federal income taxes and Social Security and Medicare taxes from employees’ wages and pay those amounts to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 9:05 pm by Aaron J. Glickman
In fact, a study conducted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that reprieving 11 states and the District of Columbia from the IMD exclusion affected neither institutionalization rates nor outpatient care supply. [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 7:10 pm by Antoinette F. Konski
The report should include recommendations on how the Centers from Medicare & Medicaid Services can make better determinations to support the use of precision medicine. [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 10:23 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
For example, if the individual selects an app that the covered health care provider uses to provide services to individuals involving ePHI, the FAQs state that the health care provider may be subject to liability under the HIPAA Rules if the app impermissibly discloses the ePHI received. [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 8:15 am by Sanchi Khare
On April 19, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a 30-day extension, until June 3, 2019, to the comment period for two rules proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 9:05 pm by Rachel E. Sachs
Third, and more generally, the ACA created the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), which provides the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services with the legal authority to “test innovative payment and service delivery models” within those programs. [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 7:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A Wisconsin employer did not violate the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) by ceasing to deduct union dues from employees’ paychecks for remittance to their certified union in response to Wisconsin’s enactment of a right-to-work law that curtailed dues checkoff, or communicating with employees about this action according the National Labor Relations Board ruling in Metalcraft of Mayville, Inc. [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 6:00 am
”Reason: The Government (told you this would get old) has mandated through the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services appropriate billing. [read post]
28 Apr 2019, 9:05 pm by Carmel Shachar
For example, the Center for American Progress toted its proposal, Medicare Extra for All, by arguing that health care constitutes a right, as opposed to a privilege. [read post]
28 Apr 2019, 9:02 pm by Series of Essays
Defining and Establishing Goals for Medicare for All April 29, 2019 | Carmel Shachar, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics It is increasingly difficult to find a Democratic presidential hopeful who has not paid at least some lip service to “Medicare for all. [read post]
24 Apr 2019, 8:07 am by Thomas Dowdell (US)
On Tuesday, April 23, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule and Request for Information. [read post]
23 Apr 2019, 2:29 pm by Debra A. McCurdy
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a 2.7% increase in Medicare hospice payment rates for fiscal year (FY) 2020, which the agency estimates would result in a $540 million increase in Medicare payments to hospices compared with 2019 levels. [read post]
23 Apr 2019, 2:28 pm by Debra A. McCurdy
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is expanding the types of durable medical equipment (DME), prosthetic, orthotics, supplies (DMEPOS) that are subject to Medicare prior authorization requirements on the basis of being “frequently subject to unnecessary utilization. [read post]
23 Apr 2019, 9:01 am by Green and Associates
 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), which oversees the Medicare program, adjusts the payments to MA Plans based on demographic information and the health status of each plan beneficiary. [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 10:22 am by James Segroves
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released its 232-page proposed rule to update the Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) prospective payment system (PPS) for federal fiscal year (FY) 2020, which begins on October 1, 2019. [read post]