03.09.12
Safety-net hospitals are central to healthcare delivery systems and as such play a critical role in achieving high-performance healthcare for vulnerable populations.
02.28.12
On February 16, 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a long-awaited proposed rule addressing the obligation of health care organizations to return overpayments made by federal health care programs.
01.20.12
On January 18, 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a proposed rule addressing the calculation of the hospital-specific cap on Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (“DSH”) payments.
12.28.11
On December 19, 2011, CMS published proposed rules that will define the new requirement that certain manufacturers report their gifts, payments, and other transfers of value to physicians and teaching hospitals.
12.21.11
Since passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on March 23, 2010, the federal government and many states have devoted an extraordinary level of resources to planning and developing the systems, policies and protocols to implement Health Insurance Exchanges that will ...
12.14.11
On December 5, 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a Final Rule to implement a provision of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) giving qualified entities access to Medicare claims data for use in evaluating the performance of health care providers.
11.09.11
On November 8, 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) officially posted on its website details about its new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) Audit Program.
11.02.11
On November 2, 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a Final Rule implementing the Medicare Shared Savings Program (“MSSP”) established under Section 3022 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “Final ...
09.29.11
As directed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”), the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released a report on September 23, 2011 on the federal 340B Drug Discount Program (the “340B Program”).
07.13.11
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) authorizes the federal government to test new healthcare payment and delivery models through Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).