Reporting Requirements, Medicare, Public Comment

CMS Unveils 2026 Physician Fee Schedule Proposal: Key Changes Ahead

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on 7/31/2025

On July 14, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed rule for the 2026 Physician Fee Schedule. As expected, there are several meaningful updates that providers, practices, and health systems...more

CMS Implements Stricter COVID-19 Testing Regulations on Nursing Homes

Jackson Walker on 9/4/2020

As part of a broader Trump administration announcement made on August 25, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued sweeping oversight changes in the form of an Interim Final Rule with Comment Period...more

CMS Proposes New Hospital Reporting Requirements and Signals Major Shift in Hospital Rate-Setting Methods

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 5/15/2020

- Tucked into a massive Medicare payment rule is a proposal to fundamentally change how CMS sets hospital payment rates. - Recognizing that a hospital’s chargemaster rarely reflects true market costs, CMS seeks to use...more

CMS Releases Proposed Changes for Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D

ArentFox Schiff on 3/9/2020

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Contract Year 2021 and 2022 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program, Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program, Medicaid Program,...more

CMS Final Rule Strengthens Integrity of Medicare Provider Enrollment Process

McDermott Will & Schulte on 10/1/2019

On September 10, 2019, the US Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule (Final Rule) expanding Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program...more

CMS Seeks Additional Ideas for Reducing Administrative Burdens in Health Care

Baker Donelson on 6/21/2019

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) focused once again on reducing the administrative burden for physicians by reviewing and revising regulations. The RFI, published...more

CMS Issues Proposed Rule on Medicare Physician Payment in 2019

Holland & Knight LLP on 7/23/2018

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

CMS Proposed Rule CMS-1694-P — Hospital Pricing and Electronic Medical Records: Increasing Patient Access

Holland & Knight LLP on 4/30/2018

On April 24, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued for comment a 1883-page proposed rule (CMS-1694-P) (the "Proposed Rule") that aims, among other goals, to increase transparency relating to...more

CMS Announces Plans to Streamline the Stark Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol

Baker Donelson on 5/26/2016

On May 6, 2016, CMS published a notice (Notice), required under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), seeking public comment on its plans to revise the information collected under the Medicare Self-referral Disclosure Protocol...more

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