Podcast - Innovations and Insights in the Palliative Care Space
Compliance and Value-Based Care
The Evolving Landscape of Behavioral Health Transactions: Insights from Industry Professionals
Counsel That Cares - The Private Payer's Perspective on Value-Based Care
Counsel That Cares - Value-Based Care as a Long-Term Investment
Counsel That Cares Podcast - Value-Based Care and Shifting Away from the Healthcare Fee-for-Service Model
Value-Based Contracting: Is It Right For Your Practice?
Podcast - Counsel That Cares - The Value of Value-Based Cancer Care
Podcast - Noteworthy Value-Based Care Mergers and Acquisitions Transactions
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 140: Dr. Marcus Blackstone, Chief Clinical Officer, Bon Secours Mercy Health
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 134: Peter Leventis, CEO, CIMS
Strategic Restructuring for the Future, Insights on Building a Hospice Network From the Ground Up: A Conversation With Mike Milward, CEO of the California Hospice Network
Podcast: What Is the Future of the Acute Care Hospital Industry? - Diagnosing Health Care
Strategic Restructuring for the Future, Succeeding in Value-Based Care: How Hospices Can Collaborate Through Network Models
HealthLaw HotSpot - A Look at Alternative Reimbursement Models in Value-Based Care
Podcast: CMS and OIG Final Rules for Innovating Your Value-Based Payment Program - Diagnosing Health Care
Value-Based Care and Its Impact on Providers
Carsten Beith on The Future of Health Care: Health Care Delivery and Consolidation Trends in 2020 and Beyond - Diagnosing Health Care Podcast
Compliance Perspectives: Changes to the Physician Self-Referral and Anti-Kickback Rules
Value-based health care: the role of payors
Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued all the fiscal year (FY) 2026 Medicare final regulations for different facility types: hospice facilities, inpatient psychiatric facilities, inpatient...more
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") has announced significant changes to its value-based payment model portfolio projected to save $750 million as part of a shift in the agency's refocused strategy toward...more
The Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model ("IOTA Model") introduces mandatory financial incentives and penalties for selected kidney transplant hospitals....more
Value-based care (VBC) is a healthcare delivery model that prioritizes patient outcomes over the volume of services provided. This approach aims to enhance the quality of care while controlling costs by incentivizing...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Aug. 1, 2023, published its final rule for the federal fiscal year (FY) 2024 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective...more
Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference to...more
In an effort to ease achieving compliance with its newly instituted Hospital Price Transparency Rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently published three sample formats on its website for hospitals...more
Staying up-to-date with fraud enforcement trends and recent cases and settlements can sometimes be viewed as a “Glass Half Empty” perspective, focusing on negative aspects of the industry and the perceived threat of...more
Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us virtually at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance...more
The Office of Inspector General’s (“OIG”) new Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) regulations modify the safe harbor for personal services and management contracts (42 CFR § 1001.952(d)) in a manner that allows providers...more
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) jointly published final rules that expand upon and modify regulatory safe harbors and exceptions to the Anti-Kickback Statute and...more
On November 20, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final rule “Modernizing and Clarifying the Physician Self-Referral Regulations” (Final Rule)....more
On December 2, 2020, CMS and OIG finished a two-year sprint to modernize the Stark and Anti-Kickback (AKS) regulations to remove barriers to value-based care and incentivize patient-centered care coordination....more
With a bold finish, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) crossed the finish line of its race to modernize and clarify the regulations interpreting the federal physician self-referral law (Stark) and anti-kickback...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Direct Contracting Model presents an exciting move towards value-based care with benefits for participants, providers and patients alike. However, the model raises a number...more
Hospitals, physician practices, and other provider organizations are dealing with unprecedented challenges in the present public health emergency following the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Providers can expect...more
On April 3, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a policy statement of enforcement discretion (the “Policy Statement”) regarding sanctions under the Federal...more
CMI, CMMI, and Changing the Consumer Experience in the U.S. and China - Case Mix Index: Sitting in multiple hospital, payor and physician organization presentations at the J.P. Morgan healthcare conference this year, it is...more
On April 21, 2019, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (“CMMI”) announced the CMS Primary Cares Initiative – a voluntary, risk-based initiative to transform the Medicare program’s reimbursement of primary care...more
This Client Alert serves as the third in a three-part series in which we describe and analyze the rules proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) as part...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 28, no. 38 (Oct. 28, 2019) - - Doctors Hospital of Augusta in Georgia agreed to pay $180,000 in a civil monetary penalty settlement over alleged violations of the Emergency Medical Treatment...more
On October 9, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released two proposed rules: Modernizing and Clarifying the Physician Self-Referral Regulations and Fraud and Abuse; Revisions to Safe Harbors under the...more
As we reported last week, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) recently issued two proposed rules (one by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and one by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)) that,...more
On October 9, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released proposed changes to the Ethics in Patient Referrals Act (the “Stark Law”), as well as the Medicare and Medicaid Anti-Kickback Statute (the...more
The U.S. healthcare industry remains at a crossroads. The healthcare reform legislation passed under President Barack Obama in 2010, officially called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) but widely referred...more