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One Big Beautiful Bill Act Includes $50 Billion Rural Health Transformation Program

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President Donald Trump signed H.R. 1, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), into law on July 4, 2025. (For a detailed analysis of the bill, see Holland & Knight's previous alert, "Trump Signs the One Big Beautiful...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Alabama CON Report - June 2025

I. Certificate of Need Program - A. AL2024-031, Springhill Hospital, Inc. d/b/a Springhill Medical Center, Mobile County, AL: Proposes to add twenty (20) inpatient rehabilitation beds to an existing eighteen (18) bed...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - March 2025 #1

News Briefs - Trump Signs Executive Order to Improve Health Price Transparency - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to improve price transparency on healthcare costs by directing federal agencies to...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

How Might Oregon and Washington healthcare providers be effected by proposed Medicaid cuts?

On February 25, House Republicans narrowly passed a budget resolution that requires the House Energy and Commerce Committee to find $880 billion in spending cuts over the next 10 years. Budget realities—including the fact...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - February 2025 #3

News Briefs - Proposed Budget Cuts Could Greatly Impact Healthcare Sector - House Republicans unveiled a budget resolution that asks the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicare and Medicaid, to find $880...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - February 2025 #2

News Briefs - More States Taking Steps to Control P.E. in Healthcare Settings - An increasing number of states are looking to control private healthcare operations transactions, even as the Trump administration appears likely...more

King & Spalding

OIG Audit Finds That Medicare Could Achieve Significant Savings if Critical Access Hospital Payments for Swing-Bed Services Were...

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On January 3, 2025, OIG posted the results of an audit that found that Medicare could have saved $7.7 billion if critical access hospitals’ (CAH) payments for swing-bed services were similar to those of the fee-for-service...more

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Emergency preparedness for FQHCs and RHCs, post-pandemic

On May 11, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a news release on behalf of HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, announcing the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). The duration of the...more

Napoli Shkolnik

Maternal Deaths are Rising—and Maternity Wards are Closing Citing High Costs, Maternal Care is Increasingly Scarce in Rural...

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Seven million women of childbearing age currently reside in counties where there is no hospital-based obstetrics care, birthing center, OB-GYN, or certified nurse-midwife, The New York Times reported last month. Since 2015,...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - December 2024 #3

News Briefs - Lawmakers Strike Deal to Extend Expiring Healthcare Programs - Lawmakers reached a deal to extend expiring healthcare programs, lobbyists close to the issue said. The package is more robust than lobbyists...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - December 2024 #2

News Briefs - Congress Taking on Healthcare Policies Set to Expire - Congress has begun discussions on important healthcare policies set to expire on December 31....more

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CMS Releases CY 2025 OPPS and ASC Final Rule

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the calendar year (CY) 2025 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System Final Rule with comment...more

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Healthcare Authority Newsletter - October 2024 #1

News Briefs - Study Says Telemedicine Improved Quality of Doctors' Patient Care - Telemedicine helped improve the quality of doctors' patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic and has the potential for improving physician...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - September 2024 #2

News Briefs - Licensure Compact Aims to Allow PAs to Practice in Other States - By 2028, the nation as a whole will be short some 100,000 critical health care workers, according to a new report....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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How to Apply and Who's Eligible for Millions of Dollars in Funding Available for New Residency Programs and Expansions Through...

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The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has issued two Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) notices of funding opportunities for the academic year (AY) 2024-2025 and AY 2025-2026. These...more

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Hospitals, Take Note: CMS Adopts Changes to Medicare Rural Designations

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Under Medicare, a plethora of policies directly correlate to whether the patient or provider is located in an urban or rural area when the service is delivered. These policies range from rules that limit coverage of...more

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The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, Issue 4, August 2024

Welcome to our fourth issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we address a variety of topics including a recent SCOTUS ruling and the potential impact on CMS, issues of patient...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - August 2024 #2

News Briefs - State Governments Taking Steps to Make Rules on Healthcare AI - In the absence of federal guardrails on artificial intelligence in healthcare, state governments are figuring out their own rules of the road....more

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Ep. 23 – Addressing Patient Transportation Needs

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Lack of transportation can be a significant barrier to accessing healthcare services. According to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report, one in five patients report forgoing needed healthcare services due to lack of...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - June 2024 #2

News Briefs - Lawmakers Boosting Investigation of P.E. Role in Healthcare - Influential U.S. Senators are the latest to launch investigations into private equity's increasing role in owning and operating everything from...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - May 2024 #3

News Briefs - Lawmakers Mull Lifting Restrictions on Physician-Owned Hospitals - Nearly 15 years ago, the construction of doctor-owned hospitals largely ground to a halt. But federal lawmakers now are considering bills that...more

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CMS Releases FY 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on April 10, 2024, released a proposed rule for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System...more

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Healthcare Authority Newsletter - April 2024 #2

News Briefs - Telehealth Access Challenged as Internet Subsidy Program Ends - More than 23 million low-income households -- urban, suburban, rural, and tribal -- are enrolled in the federal discount program Congress created...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - March 2024 #3

News Briefs - New HHS Task Force Aims to Oversee AI in Healthcare - Details are emerging on a new HHS task force faced with a monumental task: creating a regulatory structure to oversee utilization of artificial intelligence...more

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