Health care M&A
In the CY 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule (PFS Proposed Rule), released on July 14, 2025, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) introduced the Ambulatory Specialty Model (ASM), a new...more
The goal of value-based care (VBC) is to promote better care for individual patients and improved health outcomes for communities at reduced costs. This is an important and admirable purpose as many VBC stakeholders attempt...more
The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released a request for information (RFI) seeking public input on "how to address any regulatory provisions that may act as barriers to...more
CMS is seeking input on ways to reduce the regulatory burdens of the physician self-referral law (commonly known as the Stark Law), particularly as it relates to the ongoing effort to transition from a fee-for-service to a...more
Last week, a number of health care industry associations sent letters to Congress detailing ways in which the government could relieve them of the burdens associated with “red tape.” The letters are in response to the first...more
Although the fate of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) and the mandatory alternative payment models thereunder face threat of repeal under Republican leadership, the Medicare Access and Chip...more
A new report suggests that the Stark law is obsolete in new payment models. On June 30, the US Senate Committee on Finance (the Committee) released the report Why Stark, Why Now? Suggestions to Improve the Stark Law to...more