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CMS Finalizes The Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model

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The Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model ("IOTA Model") introduces mandatory financial incentives and penalties for selected kidney transplant hospitals....more

Baker Donelson

CMS Proposes New Payment Model for Some Kidney Transplant Programs

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In its continuing efforts to improve the organ donation and transplant system and promote health equity, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...more

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New Stark Exceptions Mark Shift to Value-Based Care

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On November 20, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final rule “Modernizing and Clarifying the Physician Self-Referral Regulations” (Final Rule)....more

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Corporate Law & Goverance Update - January 2020

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Given evolving Delaware law, understanding the difference between “risk oversight” and “risk management” is an increasingly important board task. In the Marchand and Clovis decisions, the Delaware courts sent an important...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

How Broad is the Managed Care Safe Harbor?

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In Advisory Opinion No. 18-11, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (the “OIG”) addressed a Medicaid managed care organization’s (“MCO”) proposal to pay its contracted providers and...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Sprinting to Coordinated Care: Healthcare Industry Urges Stark Law Relief as OIG Solicits Feedback on Changes to the Anti-Kickback...

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August 24, 2018 marked a busy day for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' (HHS) self-designated "Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care," an initiative aimed at dismantling the regulatory barriers to providers...more

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CMS Proposes to Cancel Medicare Episode Payment and Cardiac Rehab Incentive Payment Models, and to Cut Back Joint Replacement...

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On August 17, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Trump administration published a proposed rule to cancel Medicare’s hospital Episode Payment Models (EPMs) and Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR)...more

King & Spalding

GAO Report Concludes Prescribing Incentives Exist at 340B Hospitals

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According to a report released July 6, 2015 by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), hospitals that qualify to participate in the 340B Drug Pricing Program by virtue of their serving a disproportionate share of...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Health Law Wire: $85 Million settlement for first half of Halifax Qui Tam case - OIG Dan Levinson says Management failed to listen...

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One of the largest settlements, if approved by the Court, is a result of compensation and incentive programs to physicians who were “employed” at Halifax Hospital in Daytona Beach, Florida. The Halifax lawsuit was filed in...more

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"Meaningful" Errors Require Hospital System To Refund $31M

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In what is reported to be the largest repayment to date involving "meaningful use" incentive payments, Naples, Florida-based Health Management Associates, Inc. ("HMA"), with 71 inpatient facilities in 15 states, including...more

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