Healthcare Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2022

On June 15, 2022, in a win for hospitals, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in American Hospital Association et. hospitals participate, requires drug manufacturers to provide outpatient drugs to participating providers at heavily discounted rates. Several hospital groups sued to challenge this reduction in the U.S.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 10, 2023

On August 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued its Final Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (“IPPS”) and Long-Term Care Hospital (“LTCH”) PPS rule for fiscal year (“FY”) 2024 (“Final Rule”). The Final Rule increases the rate for IPPS payments by 3.3%

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Natalia Mazina

APRIL 25, 2023

On another, Medicare Part B recently challenged payments to 340B providers. Medicare reimbursement cut In 2018, CMS implemented a 28.5% reduction to payments for most drugs purchased through the 340B Program and paid under the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (“OPPS”).

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Hall Render

JULY 14, 2023

On Friday, June 20, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) posted a pre-publication copy of the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update (“PPS Rule”), which has since been published in the Federal Register and is currently open for comment. Speech Therapy 0.21

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Thu, 11/15/2018 - 20:38. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Approximately 60 million people live in rural areas – including millions of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. Also, Medicare will now pay separately for Remote Evaluation of Recorded Video and/or Images Submitted by the Patient.

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AIHC

JANUARY 28, 2022

For more information on filing compliance cost reports, attend the Medicare Cost Report Camp in March 2022 presented by KraftCPAs and sponsored by the American Institute of Healthcare Compliance. This is calculated based on the hospital’s relative share of uncompensated care nationally. In this rule, CMS will distribute roughly $8.3

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

On November 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) posted a pre-publication copy of the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update Final Rule (“2024 Final Rule”), which has since been filed in the Federal Register. 7,872 2018 5,851 77.1% 7,589 2019 5,871 79.3%

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