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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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U.S. House of Representatives Passes Health Care Price Transparency Bill

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On December 11, 2023, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 5378, the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (the Transparency Bill). The Transparency Bill would increase price transparency requirements for hospitals,...more

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Health care facilities and nursing homes awaiting CMS requirements for staff COVID-19 vaccinations

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has announced its intention to release an interim final rule over the course of the next several...more

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CMS Releases 2021 OPPS and ASC Payment System Final Rule

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the Calendar Year (CY) 2021 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System Final Rule. Note that the...more

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CMS Issues COVID-19 Infection Control Guidance for Certain Outpatient Settings

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On March 30, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a Quality, Safety & Oversight Group (QSO) memorandum (QSO-20-22-ASC, CORF, CMHC, OPT, RHC/FQHCs) addressing standards for infection control and...more

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Orthopedic Practice Recapitalizations: Critical Legal Issues

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With the pace of orthopedic medical practice recapitalizations showing no signs of slowing, it is appropriate to review certain of the most critical legal issues that any buyer considering a transaction must take into...more

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Is Prescription Drug Pricing The Cure For Partisanship?

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In a rare act of bipartisanship, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., introduced on July 23rd a chairman’s mark, the Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act (PDPRA)...more

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Top Takeaways for Medicare Physician and Hospital Payments in 2018

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Nov. 1, 2017, released the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System Final Rule for...more

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Congress Take Step Toward Site-Neutral Medicare Payments in Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015

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On October 28, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation that, if enacted, would, among other things, substantially alter how and how much Medicare pays for outpatient services furnished by hospitals. The...more

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CMS Releases CY 2016 Proposed Rule on OPPS and ASC Payment Systems, Including Changes to the Two Midnight Rule

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On July 1, 2015, CMS released a Proposed Rule that would revise the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Payment System payment rates for calendar year (CY) 2016, and would...more

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CMS Proposal Broadens Medicare Inpatient Reimbursement Eligibility Under the “2-Midnight Rule"

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On July 1, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed updates to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System for Calendar Year...more

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Health Care Update - July 2015

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In This Issue: - Medicare Releases Set of Payment Rules, Physician Fee Schedule on Deck - Implementation of the Affordable Care Act - Federal Regulatory Initiatives - Congressional Initiatives - Other...more

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CY 2014 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Proposed Rules Released by CMS

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CMS released its Calendar Year (CY) 2014 Proposed Rule for outpatient services furnished in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs). CMS anticipates that payments under the outpatient perspective payment system...more

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CMS Issues Second Set of Proposed Rule in Response to Executive Order 13563

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The proposed rule, issued on February 7, 2013, would make reforms to existing Medicare regulations applicable to hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, intermediate care facilities for individuals who are intellectually...more

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