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Senate Finance Committee Releases Budget Bill with More Aggressive Medicaid Provider Changes Than House Version

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On June 16, 2025, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee released draft legislative language for its version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a comprehensive budget reconciliation proposal that includes significant changes to...more

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A Preview of the Preview: Our CY 2026 PFS Proposed Rule Webinar Is Next Wednesday

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It’s getting hot outside, which means that the summer regulatory season is almost upon us. In June or July, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will release proposed regs impacting Medicare payments in...more

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Trending in Telehealth March 2025

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Trending in Telehealth highlights monthly state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists, and technology companies that deliver and...more

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Trending in Telehealth: August 26 – September 17, 2024

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Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists, and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more

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McDermott+ Check-Up: September 20, 2024

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Senate Judiciary Human Rights and the Law Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Georgia Abortion Ban. The field hearing examined how Georgia’s abortion ban impacts women’s health, and featured patient and physician witnesses. ...more

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Medicare Overpayments: CMS Proposes Regulation Establishing Six Month Suspended Deadline for 60-Day Refund Rule

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The 60-day Refund Rule, created by the 2010 Affordable Care Act, requires providers to report and return Medicare and Medicaid overpayments within 60 days of identifying them. See Section 1128J(d) of the Social Security Act,...more

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CMS Finalizes Major Reforms to Medicaid, Part 2: Medicaid Managed Care Reg

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Medicaid Regs Part 2! Last week, Regs & Eggs took a deep dive into the Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services final reg, one of two regs that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released to add new requirements...more

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Looking Forward: Top Policy Areas for 2024

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Happy New Year! As we enter 2024, we want to lay out some of the main regulatory issues (both new and old) that McDermott+Consulting will be tracking over the next year. While these may evolve, we think they are still...more

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The Comments are In! Responses to the Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Reg

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Time’s up and pencils down! Comments on the calendar year (CY) 2024 physician fee schedule (PFS) proposed reg were due earlier this week. Now, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will have to review them and...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: May 19, 2023

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The House and Senate were both in session this week, with significant healthcare activity at the committee level. The House Ways & Means Committee met to discuss healthcare price transparency, and the Ways & Means Health...more

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CMS to Develop Regulations Requiring Nursing Home Staff Vaccinations

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On August 18, 2021, President Biden announced that CMS would develop an emergency regulation to require nursing home staff vaccinations. This announcement comes after months of incentives and giveaways to increase the...more

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Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 30, Number 14. News Briefs: April 2021 #2

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Report on Medicare Compliance 30, no. 14 (April 12, 2021) - Doctors Care P.A., the largest urgent care provider network in South Carolina, and its management company, UCI Medical Affiliates of South Carolina Inc., will...more

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CMS Proposes Rule to Pave the Way for Value-Based Drug Purchasing

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has taken another step to further the adoption of value-based purchasing within the health care industry. (Readers may recall the Department of Health & Human Services’ two...more

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CMS Proposes Regulations that Would Have Significant Financial Impact on CCRCs

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In November 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed the Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation (MFAR), a set of regulations targeted at promoting financial integrity in state Medicaid programs. ...more

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Massachusetts Medicaid Proposes Changes to Hospital Acquisition of Costly Prescription Drugs

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Earlier this year, we wrote about a lawsuit involving the 340B drug pricing program. We sometimes write about the 340B program because it is integrally linked to the Medicaid prescription drug rebate program. So today, we...more

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CMS proposes new Stark Law exception for limited remuneration to a physician

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On October 9, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS) released proposed changes to the regulations interpreting the Physician Self-Referral Law (Stark Law), including a new proposed exception for limited...more

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CMS proposes to recalibrate the scope and application of the Stark regulations

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As part of the long-awaited proposed changes “to modernize and clarify” the regulations that interpret the Physician Self-Referral Law (the “Stark Law”) released on October 9, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...more

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Proposed Drug Rebate and PBM Service Fee Regulations Abandoned by Administration

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As reported here in February, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released two new significant proposed regulations that would have had a transformative effect on the drug...more

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The Military Health Care Fraud and Abuse Prevention Program: The Department of Defense Issues Proposed Regulations regarding...

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The U.S. Department of Defense (“DOD”) claims that fraud and abuse is inhibiting the ability of the Defense Health Agency (“DHA”), the agency responsible for administering TRICARE, to support and deliver “integrated,...more

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HHS Proposes Removing Anti-Kickback Safe Harbor Protection for PBM Rebates, Proposes Two New Safe Harbors

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On January 31, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued for public display a proposed regulation that would subject certain pharmaceutical manufacturer rebates paid to...more

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Proposed New Medicare Payment System May Affect Beneficiaries

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Medicare is proposing a new flat rate reimbursement system for doctors who treat Medicare patients. Some worry that the plan may reduce payments to specialists and cause fewer doctors to accept Medicare patients....more

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CMS Focuses on a Modern Medicare

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Earlier this month, CMS proposed changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program with the goal of “modernizing Medicare and restoring the doctor-patient relationship.” The proposed changes achieve...more

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Health Care Policy Newsletter - July 2018 pt 2

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Foley & Lardner LLP’s (“Foley”) Bipartisan Public Policy Team is pleased to share our “Public Policy Weekly* Health Care Newsletter” in which we compile the latest Health Care policy news and legislation. *Please note that we...more

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Maryland Telehealth Update: RPM, Store and Forward and Looking Ahead

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The Maryland Medicaid telehealth landscape saw some expansion in late 2017. The growth may not go as far as stakeholders desire, but it is movement nonetheless....more

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Proposed Regulations Issued Implementing Massachusetts Employer Medical Assistance Contribution (EMAC) Supplemental Contribution

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In an earlier post, we reported on the passage of H. 3822, “An Act Further Regulating Employer Contributions to Health Care,” (the “Act”), the purpose of which is to shore up the finances of the Commonwealth’s Medicaid...more

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