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
Comments on the RFI, due by June 16, present a rare opportunity to shape future technology standards, reporting requirements, and business opportunities....more
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation ("CMMI") is set to reshape value-based care. In the second of a three-part series highlighting this new direction, this summary is focused on CMMI's efforts regarding digital...more
The Department of Health and Human Services released its draft 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment. This article outlines the goals of the plan, as well as challenges in healthcare that ONC hopes the...more
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) made great strides in its race to modernize and clarify the regulations interpreting the federal physician self-referral law (Stark), Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and...more
The Situation: Telehealth services continue to evolve and show promise for improving quality care, care coordination, and access to services while also reducing the costs of care. The Action: The Office of Inspector...more
In an effort to modernize and clarify a statute that looms large in the minds of health care providers across the nation, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently...more
Through two separate notices of proposed rule-making (NPRMs), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG), seek to remove...more
On October 17, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) formally published its proposed rule (the PSR Rule) to update exceptions to the Physician Self-Referral Law (PSR Law, also known as the Stark Law). For...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
In a coordinated effort, CMS and the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published proposed rules to modernize regulations implementing the federal physician-self referral law, commonly referred to as the “Stark Law” (Stark),...more
On October 17, 2019, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) published two proposed rules (one by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and one by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)) that, if...more
This Client Alert serves as the second in a three-part series in which we describe and analyze the rules proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) as part of its...more
Key Points - On October 17, 2019, the OIG proposed rules to add safe harbor protections for coordinated care and associated value-based arrangements. - The OIG proposed several new safe harbors: value-based...more
Starting today, the industry has 75 days to provide input on the proposed rules published in the Federal Register regarding the future enforcement of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). ...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
• The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have issued a long-awaited proposal to reform the Physician Self-Referral Law’s (Stark Law’s) regulatory exceptions and to provide updated guidance for physicians and...more
On October 9, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS') Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced plans for sweeping changes to rules policing health...more
HHS’ Proposals are Designed to Promote Patient Care Coordination, Management, and Efficiencies, and Include Several Points of Interest for Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturers - In today’s Federal Register, the...more
On October 9, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its long-awaited Proposed Rule (Proposed Rule) updating and clarifying the physician...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
Big changes were announced this past week in what Health and Human Services (HHS) has labeled a “Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care.” Foley will be breaking down many of the areas of the proposed rule and the effects on...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
On October 9, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) and the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) took the next step in their Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated...more
On October 9, 2019, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced significant changes to the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the Physician Self-Referral Law (known as the Stark Law) through proposed rules issued...more
The Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) proposed changes to the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and the Civil Monetary Penalty Law, released today as part of the Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care, would...more