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Noteworthy GME Payment Policies in CMS FY 2026 IPPS and IPF Proposed Rules

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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

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Upcoming Deadline to Apply for Medicare-Funded Residency Positions

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Teaching hospitals training over their graduate medical education (GME) caps have limited opportunities to receive additional funding from Medicare. ...more

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Noteworthy GME Payment Policies and Opportunities for Residency Slots in CMS's FY 2025 IPPS Final Rule

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CMS's FY 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule (Final Rule) finalizes several noteworthy proposals related to graduate medical education (GME) payment opportunities. Below are the takeaways from the...more

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While You Were Sleeping: HHS Releases New Guidance on Sensitive Examinations

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"Informed consent" has been described as "a bedrock principle of healthcare in a free society," and if a "patient is denied the ability to exercise or even consider informed consent, the patient's personal liberty suffers."1...more

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Client Alert: New HHS and CMS Guidance on Informed Consent for Sensitive Examinations and Best Practice for the Informed Consent...

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) revised hospital interpretive guidance in the State Operations Manual, Appendix A-Hospitals on April 1, 2024 in response to media stories of nation’s teaching hospitals and...more

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Hot Topics in Health Care January 2023

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Court Remands Remedy for Unlawful 340B Rule to HHS - On January 10, 2023, the DC District Court remanded the issue of how to remedy five years of underpayments to 340B hospitals to the Department of Health and Human...more

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California Passes First State Law Requiring Physicians to Disclose Open Payments Database to Patients

Effective January 1, 2023, the recently enacted California Assembly Bill 1278,requires a physician and surgeon (defined as a physician and surgeon licensed pursuant to the Medical Practice Act or an osteopathic physician and...more

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CMS Proposes Important New Updates to the Sunshine Act’s Open Payments Program

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed 2022 Physician Fee Schedule rule (Proposed Rule) on July 13, 2021. Included in the rule are several proposed updates to the CMS Open Payments Program,...more

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Medicare Spreads Sunshine Act Coverage to New Categories of Payments, Recipients

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On November 15, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") finalized changes to the Open Payments Program as part of the CY 2020 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule....more

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CMS Open Payment Program Data Indicates $6.49 Billion Paid by Manufacturers, GPOs to Physicians and Hospitals in 2014

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CMS recently released data collected through the Open Payments Program in accordance with the Affordable Care Act from applicable manufacturers and group purchasing organizations (GPOs) about payments and other transfers that...more

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Recent PRRB and CMS Administrator Decisions: A Summary for Providers

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In recently released decisions, the PRRB and the CMS Administrator addressed a number of issues of interest to many providers. Short summaries of those decisions are provided below. The PRRB and CMS Administrator post their...more

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