On February 24, 2023, CMS issued a proposed rule that would modify the Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payment regulation to limit the universe of Section 1115 demonstration beneficiaries who can be “regarded...more
Last Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear oral arguments on January 7, 2022, regarding the legality of two federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates issued under the Biden administration. The justices will be...more
CMS and its contractors have announced that beginning January 1, 2020, the agency will repay hospitals for underpaid evaluation and management (E/M) services provided in excepted off-campus provider-based departments during...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently held in Saint Francis Medical Center v. Azar that Medicare’s reopening regulation, which prohibits providers from seeking to revise payment...more