Healthcare mergers and acquisitions have promised to bring lower costs, higher quality, and better access to care. But a new executive order is challenging the rapid pace of consolidation in...
CMS has finalized an approximate $2.3 billion increase in hospital payments next year, including a 2.5 percent bump for hospital reimbursement rates under Medicare’s Inpatient Prospective Payment...
CMS recently released four final Medicare payment rules for fiscal year (FY) 2022. The rules cover new rates and other policies for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), hospice agencies, inpatient...
CMS is seeking greater hospital price transparency enforcement through the newly proposed Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rule for calendar year (CY) 2022.
The rule proposed...
CMS has proposed a new rule that would update the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and seek more health equity and telehealth utilization among physicians.
The proposed rule would establish a new...
An executive order has serious implications for healthcare consolidation, and specifically, hospital mergers and acquisitions.
The President signed the executive order on Friday in an effort to boost...
CMS has issued a proposed rule that would create a new value-based payment pathway for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) facilities, as well as update Medicare rates for renal dialysis services next...
Several US departments, including HHS, have released much-anticipated surprise billing regulations to implement the No Surprises Act, a law passed last year that aims to protect patients from...
Leading healthcare industry groups are calling on lawmakers to leave Medicare and unspent provider relief funds alone when finding ways to offset spending from a proposed infrastructure deal.
Released...
CMS has released the proposed rule for the Home Health Prospective Payment System next year. The rule seeks to expand the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model and address health equity...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is seeking more time for healthcare providers with unspent COVID-19 relief funds.
The deadline to use COVID-19 relief funds is approaching for many providers....
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has paid over 5 million claims for COVID-19 vaccinations of uninsured Americans, according to a recent announcement.
The claims were paid...
The majority of the top 100 hospitals by gross revenue are using a price estimator tool to comply with a landmark hospital price transparency rule from HHS, according to a recent study.
The study...
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...
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...
The Senate has confirmed Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) by a vote of 55 to 44.
Brooks-LaSure is the first Black woman to lead the agency...
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...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is asking HHS to extend the deadline for when providers can use COVID-19 relief funds to the end of the public health emergency (PHE).
HHS has set a deadline of...
CMS is proposing to increase Medicare hospital inpatient rates by $2.5 billion next fiscal year, in addition to bolstering the rural healthcare workforce and health equity reporting.
The rate increase...
