HHS has updated Provider Relief Fund reporting requirements to give clinicians more time to use the payments and report on those uses.
The update to the Post-Payment Notice of Reporting Requirements...
Medicare payments will increase by $35 per dose for providers who administer at-home COVID-19 vaccinations for Medicare beneficiaries, CMS announced today. In alignment with President Biden’s...
President Joe Biden has requested an increase in the HHS budget next year to strengthen public health infrastructure and crisis-related needs, among other top health spending proposals.
The...
Under the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HHS announced it will allocate $4.8 billion to COVID-19 testing reimbursement for the uninsured as part of the American Rescue...
HHS unlawfully changed the weighting factors assigned to residents and fellows for Medicare Direct Graduate Medical Education (DGME) payments, according to a recent opinion from the US District Court...
HHS is asking the Supreme Court to bypass a case brought on by hospital groups challenging site-neutral payment rates for certain outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) services, which the...
A bipartisan group of 77 Congress members, led by Reps. Cindy Axne (IA-03) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-02), released a letter on May 11th urging HHS to reconsider its...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an arm of the HHS, is distributing nearly $1 billion from the Biden Administration’s American Rescue Plan to help rural health providers...
After reports have indicated inconsistent adherence to the CMS price transparency final rule put into effect on January 1, 2021, ranking members on the US House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote a...
In a letter to HHS, the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS) recommended that the agency promote significant ACO growth after several years of policies have hampered...
UPDATED The Senate has approved California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Senators approved Biden’s pick for the...
Healthcare remains one of the top priorities for the Biden administration as it inherits an ongoing pandemic and the unstable future of the Affordable Care Act. But the President is already unveiling...
2021 may not have started as the fresh page everyone was hoping for, but a new administration could be making some well-worn strategies more relevant.
In a new Healthcare Strategies podcast, the...
HHS has amended the Provider Relief Fund reporting timeline in order to give those who received over $10,000 in payments more time to attest how they used the funds.
The federal department announced...
Alex Azar has resigned as head of HHS to make room for President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for HHS Secretary following his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021.
Azar was sworn in as the 24th HHS Secretary...
HHS has renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency, extending key regulatory flexibilities such as Medicare telehealth reimbursement and higher rates for COVID-19 hospitalizations through April.
The...
New guidance from HHS has clarified that hospitals and other covered entities in the 340B Drug Pricing Program are entitled to discounts for covered outpatient drugs even if they use contract...
HHS, through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), has completed review of Phase 3 Provider Relief Fund applications and will start distributing payments to over 70,000...
HHS is addressing Provider Relief Fund reporting requirements that have left recipients questioning how they can spend the financial aid from the federal government.
The federal department clarified...
After years of debate, HHS agencies have made changes to two major healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse laws that providers have said get in the way of value-based care progress.
Late last week, CMS and...
