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CMS Final Rule Overhauls Long-Term Care Facility Regulations & Federal Court Blocks Enforcement of Key Provision

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued its long-awaited final rule on long-term care facility reform, which represents the first comprehensive change to long-term care conditions of participation since 1991. The...more

OIG Revises Safe Harbors under the Anti-Kickback Statute and Civil Monetary Penalty Rules Regarding Beneficiary Inducements

On December 7, 2016, the Office of Inspector General of the US Department of Health and Human Services published a final rule containing revisions to both the federal Anti-Kickback Statute safe harbors and the beneficiary...more

CMS Releases CY 2017 Final Rule Implementing Changes to Outpatient Prospective Payment System

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the calendar year 2017 final rule implementing changes to the Medicare hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System, or OPPS, including provisions implementing Section...more

CMS Increase in Mandated Nursing Facility CMPs

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published a letter to State Survey Agency Directors describing revisions to Chapter 7 of the State Operations Manual (SOM) to reflect mandatory disciplinary...more

New Medicare Enrollment Requirements for MA Providers

In Depth - The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 7, 2016, (the Proposed Rule) requires certain providers and suppliers furnishing health...more

CMS Proposed Rule Implements Limitations on Medicare Payments for Off-Campus Outpatient Hospital Departments

In Depth - Background - On July 6, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the CY 2017 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Proposed Rule, which includes proposed regulations to...more

OIG Issues Report on Provider-Based Facilities, Urges CMS to Make Changes

In Depth - On June 16, 2016, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) posted a report examining the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) oversight of billing by...more

Program Integrity Changes to the Medicare Provider Enrollment Process

On March 1, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule (Proposed Rule) entitled “Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance...more

CMS Finalizes Prior Authorization Program for Certain DMEPOS Items

On December 30, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its final rule establishing a prior authorization program for certain durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS)...more

Congress Take Step Toward Site-Neutral Medicare Payments in Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015

On October 28, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation that, if enacted, would, among other things, substantially alter how and how much Medicare pays for outpatient services furnished by hospitals. The...more

CMS Issues Proposed - Skilled Nursing Facility Rule

On April 15, 2015, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule to address Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Medicare rate increases for fiscal year (FY) 2016, as well as to propose a variety of measures...more

CMS Proposes Rule to Expand Authorization Program, Solicits Comments on Implementation

On May 28, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule to establish a prior authorization process for certain durable medical equipment,...more

OIG Proposes Rule to Expand Civil Monetary Penalties and Solicit Comments on Penalty for Failure to Report and Return Overpayments...

Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) proposed rule expands the use of civil monetary penalties and solicits comments on the penalty for failure to report and return overpayments. ...more

CMS to Postpone Denying Claims When Ordering/Referring Provider Not Enrolled in Medicare

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will implement edits on providers ordering/referring Part B, durable medical equipment and Part A home health agency claims effective January 6, 2014....more

CMS Delays Edits to Deny Claims When Ordering/Referring Provider Not Enrolled in Medicare and Issues Proposed Rule on Enrollment...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services temporarily delayed the implementation of edits relating to ordering/referring practitioners that were scheduled to go into effect May 1, 2013, and issued a proposed rule with...more

CMS to Deny Claims When Ordering/Referring Provider Not Enrolled in Medicare

Effective May 1, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin to deny Part B Durable Medical Equipment (DME) and Part A Home Health Agency (HHA) claims for services or supplies when the...more

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