On May 31, 2023, CMS issued a final rule (Final Rule) repealing COVID-19 vaccination requirements for staff and testing requirements for staff and patients of long-term care (LTC) facilities. These were previously required...more
On April 20, 2023, HHS announced that it is releasing ownership data for all Medicare-certified hospice and home health agencies not previously available to the public in this way. There are more than 6,000 hospices and...more
On April 18, 2022, the Supreme Court tossed two consolidated cases from Arkansas and New Hampshire addressing work requirements for Medicaid coverage that required potential Medicaid beneficiaries to work, attend school, or...more
On October 20, 2021, HHS published in the Federal Register a proposal to repeal two final rules issued during the Trump administration. The final rules up for repeal are the “Department of Health and Human Services Good...more
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On January 28, 2021, HHS issued a fifth amendment to the Declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act), expanding the categories of persons able to prescribe, dispense, and administer...more
On February 24, 2020, the Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, upheld the Trump administration’s regulation that prohibits grantees under Title X of the Public Health Service Act from referring patients for, or otherwise...more
OIG recently updated its interactive map that displays details on nursing home complaint trends to incorporate data from 2016 through 2018. OIG had previously conducted a study and published an interactive map showing...more
OIG recently released its annual publication of Solutions to Reduce Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in HHS Programs: OIG’s Top Recommendations (July 2019 Edition). In the July 2019 Edition, OIG focused on the top 25 unimplemented...more
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced on September 27, 2018, that it is increasing transparency of Federal actions against healthcare entities by publicly disclosing: (1) “closed corporate integrity agreements...more
On September 5, 2018, the American Hospital Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, America’s Essential Hospitals, Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems, Henry Ford Health System, and Fletcher Hospital, Inc....more
On May 16, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted the parties’ Joint Motion for Remand to vacate the Court’s injunction on HHS’s cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments. The Joint Motion...more