Host Nick Healey welcomes back to the show Husch Blackwell partner Ellee Cochran and Melanie Durfee, a director of medical staff services for a 205-bed acute care hospital in Idaho, for the second and concluding part of a...more
Host Nick Healey welcomes to the show Husch Blackwell’s partner Ellee Cochran and Melanie Durfee, who serves as the Director of Medical Staff Services for a 205-bed acute care hospital in Idaho, for a two-part discussion...more
The Price Transparency Rule (the Rule) became effective on January 1, 2021. By October 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had issued warnings to over 300 hospitals deemed not in compliance with the...more
On June 11, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued new guidance on Provider Relief Fund (PRF) reporting and the deadline for providers to use their funds. Provider recipients can now begin...more
In light of the public health emergency and the urgent need to help individuals and small employers experiencing economic hardship, CMS announced on August 4, 2020 that it has adopted a temporary policy to allow health plan...more
On May 12, 2020 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued additional 1135 blanket waivers which are applicable to a wide variety of health care providers. These COVID-19 Emergency Declaration Blanket Waivers...more