On June 24, 2019, President Trump signed a long-awaited executive order that he said would "fundamentally" change the healthcare market. The order builds upon current regulations that require hospitals to make available a...more
6/26/2019
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Disclosure Requirements ,
Executive Orders ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Health Savings Accounts ,
Healthcare Costs ,
Hospitals ,
Out-of-Pocket Expenses ,
Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) ,
Price Transparency ,
Proposed Rules ,
Surprise Medical Bills ,
Trump Administration
• The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on April 23, 2019, released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule.
• The proposed payment rate increase...more
5/1/2019
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CMS and ONC Unveil Proposals Transforming Interoperability and Patient Access to Data -
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health...more
3/1/2019
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
ONC ,
Opioid ,
Proposed Rules
On Jan. 31, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a long-awaited proposed rule that would, if finalized, remove the existing legal "safe harbor" that protects...more
2/5/2019
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Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) ,
Prescription Drugs ,
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Trump Administration
On July 25, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed policy and payment updates affecting the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC)...more
8/16/2018
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Site-Neutral Exception
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 12, 2018, published the CY 2019 Proposed Rule for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). While in previous years regulations for the Quality Payment Program (QPP)...more
7/23/2018
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Bi-Partison Balanced Budget Act (BBA) ,
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Health Care Providers ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Part B ,
MIPS ,
Outpatient Services ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Physician Fee Schedule ,
Physicians ,
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Quality Payment Program (QPP) ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Telehealth