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Health and Human Services Regulatory Agenda for 2016
The Department of Health and Human Services recently released their semi-annual regulatory agenda, a listing of rules…
CMS and HHS-OIG Release Stark Law Practice Waivers for ACO’s
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a final rule…
Unintended Consequences of Transparency – Creating Confusion
A new study, published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, found that the recent transparency effort…
Medicare Releases Drug Data to the Public: Medicare Drug Spending Dashboard…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made drug cost data public for forty drugs administered by…
CMS Annual Recovery Audit Report 2015
We have previously written about the Medicare Recovery Audit (RAC) program. In previous years, they reviewed million of…
Stage III Meaningful Use CMS Doubles Down as Opposition Mounts
Despite Congressional interest in delaying Stage 3 of the electronic health record Meaningful Use program and the AMA…
2016 Physician Fee Schedule: Includes Changes on Self-Referral Rules,…
Earlier this year, we wrote about the proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. In the proposed rule, CMS sought comment…
2016 Data Collection and Submittal Changes under the Open Payments System
A representative of the Open Payments Team at CMS, hosted a Webinar on Thursday, October 29, 2015 about Open Payments…
Physician Payments Sunshine Act: Comments For and Against CMS Including…
On July 15, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its proposed rule to update the Medicare…
Hospital Compare Survey Of Patient Experience: Highest Scores For Small,…
Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) added a new star rating system to its Hospital…