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Every July, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) publishes two proposed rules that set Medicare reimbursement and shape the administration of the Medicare Part B program for the upcoming calendar year. These...more
The wound care industry faces unprecedented scrutiny as Medicare Part B expenditures for skin substitutes exceeded $1.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023 alone. The spending surge has triggered a wave of skin substitute...more
The HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS) are notifying 946,801 people whose protected health information or other personally identifiable information...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 11 (March 23, 2020) - There are signs of life to the national hospital reviews of short stays and high-weighted MS-DRGs (HWDRGs). A CMS spokesperson said Avar Consulting, a...more
Long time readers of our blog may recall that five years ago, I predicted that 2014 might be a game-changing year for the 340B Drug Discount Program. 2014 saw attempts at regulatory changes, but a successful court challenge...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 12, 2018, published the CY 2019 Proposed Rule for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). While in previous years regulations for the Quality Payment Program (QPP)...more
In an earlier post, we reported on a troubling development in the draft 2015 instructions for Forms 1094-B and 1095-B which, if adopted, would have required sponsors of Health Reimbursement Arrangements (“HRA”) to issue...more
First Data Collection Period for Clinical Laboratories Is July 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015 - In the October 1, 2015 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule...more
CMS recently published a proposed rule that would substantially revise the methodology used to pay for clinical laboratory tests that continue to be compensated separately by Medicare. Medicare Program; Medicare Clinical...more
As required by a 2014 statute, CMS has issued proposed regulations (Proposed Rule) implementing new requirements for laboratory reporting of, and eventually basing Medicare payment on, rates for clinical laboratory services...more
On September 25, 2015, CMS released proposed rulemaking that would extensively revise payment and reporting requirements for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests (CDLTs), as paid on the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule...more
On September 25, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced publication of the proposed rule (the “Proposed Rule”) implementing substantial changes to the Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule...more