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CMS Issues Contract Year 2023 Final Rule for Medicare Advantage Organizations and Prescription Drug Sponsors

Healthcare Law Blog

On April 29, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), issued the final rule on Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs (the “Final Rule”). With a few exceptions, the Final Rule is a wholesale codification of the proposed rule.

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CMS Rule on Agent Broker Compensation Paused by Texas Federal Court

Hall Render

On July 3, 2024, a federal court in Texas (“the Court”) issued a stay related to certain provisions of CMS’s Contract Year 2025 Medicare Advantage and Part D (“MAPD”) Final Rule (“2025 Final Rule”), which would change how agents and brokers are paid by Medicare Advantage (“MA”) and Part D plans.

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CMS Rule on Agent Broker Compensation Paused by Texas Federal Court

Hall Render

On July 3, 2024, a federal court in Texas (“the Court”) issued a stay related to certain provisions of CMS’s Contract Year 2025 Medicare Advantage and Part D (“MAPD”) Final Rule (“2025 Final Rule”), which would change how agents and brokers are paid by Medicare Advantage (“MA”) and Part D plans.

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CMS Announces Proposed Rule: Transforming Episode Accountability Model “TEAM”

Hall Render

On April 10, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced its plan to implement the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (“TEAM”), a new mandatory alternative payment model unveiled as part of the 2025 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule.

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Post-Acute Compliance Program Update: OIG Proposes Amendments to Exclusion Rules

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The section currently requires OIG to take into account access of beneficiaries to physician services for which payment may be made under Medicare, Medicaid or other federal health care programs in determining whether to impose an exclusion. ET on January 31, 2025. Comments are due by 5:00 p.m.

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Home Health PPS Final Rule for CY 2024: CMS Steps Back from the Brink

Hall Render

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. Beginning with CY 2025, the baseline year will shift to CY 2023.

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Health Provider News – May 20, 2022

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McKinsey Report: Nursing Shortage Will Become Dire by 2025. OIG: 25% of Medicare hospital patients experienced harm pre-pandemic. Tenet Detroit hospital at risk of losing Medicare contract. Medicare fraud. to settle billing fraud claims. New legislation calls on CMMI to create model based on health equity.