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How the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 2025 Payment System Final Rule Impacts Ambulatory Surgical Centers

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On November 1, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the 2025 hospital outpatient prospective payment system and ambulatory surgical centers (ASC) rule. The rule updates Medicare payment rates for...more

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Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up Newsletter | November 2023 Recap

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This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for November 2023. We discuss several US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency actions, including the new General...more

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Behavioral Health: Momentum Continues in the CY 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

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On November 16, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule for calendar year 2024 (PFS Final Rule). According to the CMS press release, the PFS Final Rule...more

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CMS Expands Access to Behavioral Health Outpatient Services

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced it is expanding access to behavioral health services for Medicare beneficiaries through intensive outpatient services coverage. In general, Medicare will cover...more

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Policy Update - CMS Finalizes Remedy for 340B-Acquired Drugs Purchased in CYs 2018–2022

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On November 2, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the rule Medicare Program; Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System: Remedy for the Calendar Years 2018–2022 to addresses how the...more

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The CY 2024 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Reg: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the two major regulations we all were waiting for: the Calendar Year (CY) 2024 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed reg and the CY 2024 Outpatient...more

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Rural Emergency Hospitals: CMS Publishes Proposed Enrollment and Payment Policies for New Medicare Provider Type

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On 26 July 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the 2023 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System proposed rule (the OPPS Proposed...more

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CMS issues mid-build audit determinations for provider-based locations

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At long last, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued decisions on provider applications for the mid-build exception. Nearly four years after the deadline for hospitals to apply for the mid-build...more

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Healthcare Law Review: Overview of the U.S. Healthcare System

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The U.S. healthcare industry remains at a crossroads. The healthcare reform legislation passed under President Barack Obama in 2010, officially called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) but widely referred...more

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K&L Gates Triage: Activation of Validation Edits for OPPS Providers with Multiple Service Locations

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), recently announced that it plans to activate systematic validation edits for Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) providers with multiple service locations that...more

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CMS Proposes Finalizing Payment Cuts for Off-Campus Hospital Clinic Visits

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Last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a controversial payment cut to certain off-campus provider-based departments (PBDs) for the most commonly billed Outpatient Prospective Payment System...more

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Could relief from the Medicare cuts in reimbursement for 340B drugs be coming soon for hospitals?

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Relief for hospitals that have endured drastic cuts in Medicare reimbursement for the majority of drugs they purchase under the 340B drug discount program may be coming soon. A federal judge recently affirmed his prior...more

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2019 Physician Fee Schedule Rule Review: Off-Campus Provider-Based Hospital Departments

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On November 1, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule (Rule), which includes modifications to Medicare payment policies and rates....more

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CMS Continues to Tighten the Belt on Hospital Off-Campus Provider-Based Departments

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Hospitals with off-campus provider-based departments (PBDs) may want to rethink their end of summer vacation plans in order to focus on a recent slate of proposed regulations from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services...more

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Off-campus provider-based hospital outpatient departments: Challenges and options in 2018

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2017 was another challenging year for hospitals grappling with site-neutral payment changes for off-campus provider-based hospital outpatient departments (OCPBDs). ...more

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The 340B Drug Pricing Program: New CMS Final Rule Draws a Motion for Preliminary Injunction from Hospital Groups

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On November 13, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final rule, “Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting...more

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CMS Proposes to Reduce Facility Payment for Non-Excepted Provider-Based Outpatient Department Services by 50 Percent

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CMS recently proposed to reduce the facility fee for non-excepted off-campus provider-based hospital departments (OPBDs) from 50 percent of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) amount to 25 percent of the MPFS amount....more

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The Opportunities and Challenges of Freestanding Emergency Departments

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Following our blog post regarding the retail clinic movement, “Patient Check-Ups Before Checking Out: Partnering to Bring Health Care into the ‘One-Stop Shopping’ Sector” (April 19, 2017), we continue our examination of...more

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2017 Brings Big Changes for Off-Campus Provider-Based Facilities

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Historically, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has reimbursed items and services furnished by provider-based departments (PBDs), both on and off campus, under the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective...more

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