The Adaptive Medical Partners (AMP) conducted survey of over 1,000 physicians and clinicians from their network to gather insight regarding the impact of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare...
CMS has issued the interim final rule with comment period requiring all healthcare workers to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The rule mandates vaccinations of eligible staff at healthcare facilities...
The Texas Medical Association is taking action against a regulation slated to implement the No Surprises Act, a federal surprise billing law taking effect on January 1st.
The Association recently...
UPDATED CMS has finalized the calendar year (CY) 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule to promote greater telehealth utilization, boost reimbursement rates for vaccine administration, and improve...
Starting January 1, CMS will increase penalties for noncompliance with hospital price transparency requirements under the newly released Calendar Year (CY) 2022 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment...
UPDATED CMS has made changes to the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) alternative payment model, ESRD Treatment Choices, to directly address health equity.
The ESRD Treatment Choices (ETC) Model is...
There are still tens of billions of dollars sitting the Provider Relief Fund, a pool of grants specifically for healthcare providers who have reported or are still experiencing pandemic-related losses...
Prior authorizations are troubling medical groups more than regulations governing the workplace during COVID-19 and Medicare’s Quality Payment Program, according to survey results from the...
Healthcare organizations are planning to reconsider physician compensation, hiring, and other initiatives if Congress does not stop looming Medicare payment cuts.
Almost half (47 percent) of medical...
The American Medical Association (AMA) is calling the latest in a series of surprise billing regulations “an undeserved gift to the insurance industry that will reduce [healthcare] options for...
The Biden-Harris Administration has released a long-awaited interim final rule that will explains how payers and providers will agree on an out-of-network rate when surprise billing occurs. The rule...
CMS has proposed repealing a Trump-era rule that sought to deliver faster Medicare coverage for medical devices designated as "breakthrough" by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The rule also...
HHS and other federal departments have released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would impose civil monetary penalties of up to $10,000 on providers and facilities with surprise billing...
HHS will distribute $25.5 billion in COVID-19 provider funding, including $8.5 billion from the American Rescue Plan for rural providers and a fourth round of general Provider Relief Fund distribution...
A COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers will be tied to Medicaid and Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoP), the Biden-Harris Administration recently announced.
The announcement made via...
Congress allocated $178 billion to the Provider Relief Fund to help hospitals overcome the financial and operational challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the primary distribution method for the aid...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is urging HHS to distribute billions of dollars still sitting in the COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund.
The Sept. 2 special bulletin from the AHA said that it...
In December 2020, Congress passed the No Surprises Act to reduce unexpected medical bills on patients. But implementing the regulations by the January 2022 deadline might be a challenge for...
Medical groups are urging Congress to prevent significant cuts to Medicare payment that could be triggered by recent spending bills and a proposed rule from CMS.
In a letter to Congressional leaders,...
A prohibition on surprise billing is coming at the start of next year and federal agencies have started to release what surprise billing compliance will look like. These new compliance requirements...
