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Medicaid Cuts: Potential Challenges and Legal Implications for Long-Term Care Facilities — Assisted Living and the Law Podcast
False Claims Act Insights - How Payment Suspensions Can Impact FCA Litigation
Federal Court Strikes Down FDA Rule on LDTs - Thought Leaders in Health Law®
UPIC Audits
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 8: Hospice Special Focus Program: Pumping the Brakes
Hospice Insights Podcast - Upping the Ante: Will CMS’s Enhanced Oversight Efforts Cause Hospices to Fold?
Podcast — Drug Pricing: What’s in the New CMS Medicaid Final Rule?
Hospice Insights Podcast - What a Difference No Deference Makes: Courts No Longer Bow to Administrative Agencies
Preparing for CMS Staffing Mandates — Assisted Living and the Law Podcast
Hospice Insights Podcast - Meet the New Laws, Same as the Old Laws: Overpayment Recoupment Update
Podcast — Drug Pricing: Takeaways From the Chicago Medicaid Drug Rebate Program Summit
Podcast — Drug Pricing: How the Demise of Chevron Deference and Other Litigation May Impact the Pharmaceutical Industry
The CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Rules
Podcast — Drug Pricing: How Are Payers Responding to the IRA?
Findings from Gibbins’ Annual Healthcare Bankruptcy Report
A Fond Farewell: Musings on the End of the Medicare Advantage Hospice Carve-In Demonstration
Video: Braidwood v. Becerra – Challenging the Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Services Coverage Provision – Thought Leaders in Health Law
Hospice and Home Health Survey Perspectives: A Conversation with Kim Skehan, VP of Accreditation at CHAP
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more
On July 31, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it will conduct a pilot program testing out a rebate model for 340B drug purchases. Under the program, drug manufacturers will be allowed...more
On July 16, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its CY 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Proposed Rule, which includes a sweeping...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published its proposed 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule on July 14. The agency’s announcement emphasized “significantly cutting spending waste, enhancing quality...more
Key Takeaways - CMS proposes to significantly expand the use of virtual direct supervision for incident-to services, removing prior limitations based on Professional Component (PC)/Technical Component (TC) indicators and...more
On July 14, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed rule for the 2026 Physician Fee Schedule. As expected, there are several meaningful updates that providers, practices, and health systems...more
On July 16, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for the Ambulatory Specialty Model (ASM), a mandatory, five-year alternative payment model for select specialists who regularly treat...more
On July 14, 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the calendar year (CY) 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Proposed Rule (Proposed Rule). This client alert focuses on the proposed...more
On July 14, 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2026 calendar year (CY 2026) Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (Proposed Rule). Among the many changes proposed, the Proposed Rule includes...more
On July 14, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the proposed rule for the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (“PFS”), formally titled CMS-1832-P....more
Key Takeaways - CMS has proposed a mandatory two-sided risk model for specialists treating heart failure and low back pain in outpatient settings....more
CMS Releases Proposed Rule for 2026 ESRD PPS - As the nephrology organization representing the specialty on socioeconomic and physician practice issues, the Renal Physicians Association analyzes and disseminates...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 14, 2025, issued the calendar year (CY) 2026 Proposed Rule, which proposes payment policies and other outpatient services covered under Medicare Part B. Comments are...more
On June 30, 2025, CMS issued its annual Home Health Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule for Calendar Year (CY) 2026 (the Proposed Rule). The Proposed Rule continues the agency’s policy of using provisions of the...more
This month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued several noteworthy proposed Graduate Medical Education (GME) payment policies and opportunities in its fiscal year (FY) 2026 Medicare Inpatient Prospective...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights key regulatory and enforcement activity for March 2025. This month features: - Noteworthy enforcement actions demonstrating that the Anti-Kickback Statute...more
On March 10, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced a further delay in the implementation of proposed updates to its Guidance to Surveyors for Long-Term Care Facilities under Appendix PP of the...more
On December 28, 2024, a long-awaited Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule became effective, significantly updating laboratory personnel requirements under Subpart M of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement...more
Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector....more