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CMS Innovation Center: One Year of Innovation
This month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center, created by the Affordable Care Act,…
HHS Publishes Medicaid Quality Measures
Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a notice finalizing the initial core set of 26 care quality…
CMS Selects 32 Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the final list of 32 Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations (ACO)…
CMS and OMB Announce New Fraud Measures
In 2010, the President announced three goals for cutting improper payments in federal health programs by 2012: reducing overall…
CMS Answers Questions on Electronic Health Records
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released eight new answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) to…
CMS Final Rule on Hospital Meaningful Use and Quality Reporting
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' final rule updating the hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS)…
CMS Turns Medicare Cuts into Bonus Payments Based on Patient Experience
The Affordable Care Act includes a number of policies to help physicians, hospitals, and other caregivers improve the safety and…
CMS-FDA Breast Cancer and Avastin: FDA Pulls Approval While CMS Pays
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg announced in a 69-page decision that the agency would…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: CMS Proposed Rule – Impact on…
Last week’s proposed rule for the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (Section 6002 of the Affordable Care Act) had some troubling…
CMS Imposes Payment Restrictions on Preventable Conditions
A recent update from the law firm McDermott Will & Emery, explained how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)…