The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued CMS Advisory Opinion No. CMS-AO-2025-1 on February 26, 2025, blessing the relocation of a physician-owned hospital. The hospital planned to relocate eight miles from...more
Are doctors relocating all over the United States? Congress created the National Practitioners Data Bank in 1986, passing a piece of legislation whose mission entailed improving the quality of healthcare, reducing abuse...more
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. AL2017-012, Crowne Health Care of Springhill, LLC, Mobile, AL: Proposes to relocate twenty-six (26) nursing home beds from Crowne Health Care of Mobile, LLC, a 174-bed nursing home....more
A major purpose of the Certificate of Need (“CON”) Task Force established by Governor Malloy last February was to deliver recommendations on how to improve the existing CON program in light of the evolving health care...more
CMS has issued guidance documents addressing how hospitals can (1) qualify an off-campus provider-based department (PBD) for the “mid-build” exception set forth in the 21st Century Cures Act and (2) request from their CMS...more
Hospitals that have relocated a provider-based clinic after the enactment of the Bipartisan Budget Act must take action now. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released guidance on extraordinary...more
CMS recently published its final outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) rule, which includes its new policies governing payment related to services furnished at off-campus provider-based departments (OPBDs). 81 Fed....more