Last week, leaders of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce (the “Committee”) sent letters to CMS and four hospital accreditation organizations, expressing concerns regarding the rigor of the accreditation survey...more
On December 29, 2017, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted the government’s motion to dismiss a pre-implementation challenge to CMS’s policy to cut the Medicare reimbursement rate for...more
In a recently announced proposed rule (CMS-1679-P), CMS proposes to increase aggregate pay by $390 million in fiscal year (FY) 2018 for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). In a separate notice (CMS-1686-ANPRM), CMS is...more
After narrowly passing the Budget Committee, the Republican-sponsored health reform repeal and replace bill, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), is scheduled for a floor vote for Thursday, March 23, 2017, seven years to the...more
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report on October 4, 2016, estimating that a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives to block the implementation of CMS’s proposed payment model for Part B drugs would cost...more
On September 8, 2016, CMS announced in a blogpost that new physician payment model reforms, established in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), will begin implementation on January 1, 2017, as...more
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