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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)…
CMS Updates Rule for Hospital Outpatients and Guidelines for SGR
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule with comment period (final rule) that will update…
CMS Delays HIPAA Implementation by 90 Days
Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of E-Health Standards and Services (OESS) announced the…
Donald Berwick Resigns as CMS Administrator One Month Early, President…
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Administrator Donald Berwick, MD resigned in the face of Republican pledges to block his…
CMS Announces Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new plan that would pay interested doctors, hospitals, and other…
CMS Proposed Rule: Changes to the Conditions of Participation for Long…
Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a Medicare rule that considers requiring the…
CMS Final Rule for the 2011 Electronic Prescribing (eRX) Incentive Program
According to a recent blog post written by Patrick Conway, M.D., MSc, Centers for Medicare and Medicated Services (CMS) Chief…
CMS to Release Final Rule on Hospital Readmissions
A recent article from Kaiser Health News noted that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will soon release a final…
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: CMS Misses Deadline – Creating…
As we have noted many times on this website, the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (Sunshine Act), which was included in the Patient…