2024, that makes a number of changes to regulations governing the Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). Among other things, the Final Rule gives CMS additional grounds on which to deny PACE organizations’ initial and service area expansion applications, imposes immunization require...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its final rule updating the Home Health Agencies (HHA) payment rates and policies for the calendar year (CY) 2025 Home Health prospective payment system (PPS). CMS estimates a 2.7% increase, but when combined with the behavioral offset...
In May 2020, the agency created arequirement for nursing homes to report resident and staff infections and deaths related to COVID-19. This provision was initially set to end with the PHE, but CMS extended the requirement in the 2023 Home Health rule to December 2024. Additiona...
On July 31, 2023, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) published a report entitled,Public Health Funding and the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023. This report assesses the impact that theFiscal Responsibility Act of 2023(FRA) will have on public health funding. Within HHS, there are nine...
August 7, 2023 –Legal Alerts Timothy Cahill and Bryan CockroftThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has announced its proposed rules for the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment (“OPPS”) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (“ASC”) Payment Systems, as well as its calendar...
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For instance, CMS plans to continue allowing distant site practitioners to use their practice location instead of their home address when providing telehealth services and allowing teaching physicians to virtually supervise residents who are providing telehealth services in teaching settings. ...
This comes in the context of a favourable policy environment:the previous Conservative administration introduced permitted development rights for domestic rooftop solar, removed the 1MW limit on solar permitted development rights for non-domestic premises in England in December 2023 and launched a “Solar...
Healthcare Update: CMS Issues Medical Loss Ratio Regulations; HHS Rejects Two State MLR Waiver RequestsLeslie J. Levinson
Hospice and Home Health Survey Perspectives: A Conversation with Kim Skehan, VP of Accreditation at CHAP Transparency and the Open Payments Program Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 173: Improving rural health care with Dr. Kevin Bennett, the Director of ...