Hospice Insights Podcast - Hospice Audit Updates: Hospices Fare Well in Federal Court
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 245: Using AI to Improve Radiology with Angela Adams of Inflo Health
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 244: The Future of Independent Physician Practices with Ray Waldrup of The Leaders Rheum
New Virginia "Workplace Violence" Definition and Healthcare Reporting Law: What's the Tea in L&E?
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 241: Fighting Nurse Burnout with Data-Driven Innovation with Dr. Ecoee Rooney of Indicator Sciences
Taking the Pulse: A Health Care & Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 239: Understanding the 340B Pricing Program with Chuck Melendi of Disruptive Dialogue
Hospice Insights Podcast - Still Number One: Healthcare Fraud Remains Central in DOJ’s White Collar Enforcement Plan
Podcast: Addressing Patient Complaints About Privacy Violations
Podcast - Navigating the New Landscape of Private Equity in Healthcare
Medicaid Cuts: Potential Challenges and Legal Implications for Long-Term Care Facilities — Assisted Living and the Law Podcast
ADA Compliance for Medical and Dental Practices: Responding to Inquiries and Investigations
Beyond the Bylaws: The Medical Staff Show | The Role of Bylaws in Medical Staff Governance, Part II
Hospice Insights Podcast - But Wait: Things to Consider Before Adopting AI Tools In Your Hospice
Taking the Pulse: A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 232: Commercial Real Estate for Life Sciences Companies with Vinnie Durand of Savills
Understanding Senior Living Options with Beth Weeks
Executive Actions Impact Federally Funded Research: What Institutions Should Do Now – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 10: Anti-Kickback Compliance for Hospice and Skilled Nursing Providers
Healthcare Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidances (ICPGs)
Hospice Insights Podcast - One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Figuring Out What is Your Hospice+
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 229: Public Health in South Carolina with Dr. Edward Simmer of SC Dept of Public Health
On August 21, 2025, HHS OIG published a Data Brief, Report No. A-04-24-03003, which analyzed the frequency and outcomes for Medicare enrollees who chose to leave acute-care hospitals against medical advice (“AMA”). OIG found...more
On August 1, 2025, CMS issued a final rule updating the Medicare rates and policies applicable to inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) under the IRF Prospective Payment System (PPS) and the IRF Quality Reporting Program...more
On August 4, 2025, CMS issued a final rule (Final Rule) updating payment rates, policies, and quality programs for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) under the Medicare Prospective Payment System (SNF PPS) for Fiscal Year (FY)...more
In the early days of the second Trump Administration, several federal funding agencies announced caps to indirect cost (“IDC”) rates for federally funded research awards. In many cases, these caps would substantially reduce...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has extended the window for skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) to file off-cycle Medicare revalidation documents until January 1, 2026. This marks CMS’ third deadline...more
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
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
A federal judge in Iowa recently struck down key parts of a Biden-era final rule that set new minimum staffing standards for long-term care facilities as a condition of participation in Medicare or Medicaid programs. The June...more
On May 28, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) Innovation Center formally announced the early termination of the Kidney Care First (“KCF”) model effective December 31, 2025, and issued a suite of...more
What is the cost of a knee implant in the inpatient setting? How much does Medicare pay for different types of cardiac valve procedures? How have Medicare inpatient volumes changed over time for inpatient hip and femur...more
On June 18, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published new guidance announcing a major change to the way Care Compare will display survey information and the methodology for calculating the health inspection score...more
Updated to include Medicare claims data thru Q4 2024. What is the cost of a knee implant in the inpatient setting? How much does Medicare pay for different types of cardiac valve procedures? How have Medicare inpatient...more
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a significant ruling affecting hospitals that serve low-income Medicare beneficiaries, narrowing the interpretation of the Disproportionate Share Hospital (“DSH”) payment formula. In...more
Welcome to the strange and mysterious world of medical billing. If ever there was an industry in which the charges and the payments have no correlation, the medical industry is it. Medical billing can indeed be quite...more
I. Introduction - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the proposed rule on April 11, 2025, for the skilled nursing facility (SNF) prospective payment system (PPS) fiscal year (FY) 2026 update (the...more
News Briefs - Hospitals Lose Supreme Court HHS Payment Case - The U.S. Supreme Court sided with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a lawsuit brought by more than 200 hospitals that serve low-income...more
Last week, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Advocate Christ Medical Center v. Kennedy, siding with the government and holding that, for purposes of the Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) calculation,...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published the fiscal year (“FY”) 2026 proposed rule for Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) (the “Proposed Rule”). Comments to the Proposed Rule...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
Hospitals that serve a high number of indigent patients are faced with a dilemma: they must provide high-quality care but fixed Medicare reimbursement rates often do not take into account the higher operating costs that they...more
On April 11, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published its annual proposed rule for the federal fiscal year (“FFY”) 2026 inpatient prospective payment system (“IPPS”) and long-term care hospital...more
In its 2022 decision in Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation, for Valley Hospital Medical Center, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the phrase “entitled to [Medicare Part A] benefits” applied to “all those qualifying for the...more
On April 29, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Advocate Christ Medical Center, et al. v. Kennedy, No. 23-715, holding that for purposes of calculating the Medicare fraction, an individual is entitled to supplemental...more
The contentious Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule (Rule), which established minimum staffing requirements for federally funded long-term care facilities (LTC) such as skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) for Medicare and...more