In its continuing efforts to improve the organ donation and transplant system and promote health equity, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...more
Effective July 1, 2023, The Joint Commission (TJC) is accepting applications from eligible hospitals and hospital systems for its Health Care Equity (HCE) Certification program. By way of background, TJC generally accredits...more
On March 22, 2023, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, launched the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Modernization Initiative...more
As both the Senate and House continue their investigations into the organ transplant system (see Senate investigation and House investigation), and given the Biden Administration's ongoing focus on achieving health equity via...more
The law regarding discrimination on the basis of "sex" continues to evolve rapidly. Perhaps sparked by last year's landmark discrimination ruling in the Bostock case and by President Biden's day-one Executive Order on...more
On April 27, 2021, CMS issued its Fiscal Year 2022 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Rates Proposed Rule (CMS-1752-P), in which it proposes several changes to...more
Organ procurement organizations (OPOs) and transplant centers should take note: as expected, and as outlined in our recent organ procurement and transplant alert, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...more