18 Mar, 2024 New Hampshire Enacts a Comprehensive Privacy Law By Trisha Sircar On March 6, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu signed Senate Bill 255 (SB 255) into law. New Hampshire joins California, Colorado,...
13 Feb, 2024 CMS Clarifies Boundaries on AI in Coverage Determination for Medicare Advantage Organizations By Katy Pollitt On February 6, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) published an important FAQ for Medicare Advantage Organizations (MA) and...
09 Jan, 2024 New Year, New Remote Monitoring Services Billing Rules By Daniel Walbright Introduction on Final Rule On November 23, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the final rule for payment...
06 Dec, 2023 Join Katten for Investing for Tomorrow: Health Care Institutions as Investors, Strategic Investment Partners and Entrepreneurs on December 13 By Katten Events Katten will present a two-part series that delves into the transformative role of hospitals, academic medical centers, and health care...
16 Nov, 2023 New York Proposes New Cybersecurity Regulations for Hospitals By Trisha Sircar This week, New York regulators announced that they plan to release proposed cybersecurity regulations for hospitals. The impetus for the...
01 Nov, 2023 OIG Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion for Certain Physician Employee Bonuses By Erica Youngerman On October 13, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) posted Advisory Opinion No....
17 Oct, 2023 CMS Settled a Record Number of SRDPs in 2022 By Daniel Walbright The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently updated the publicly available information regarding the Self-Referral...
26 Sep, 2023 OIG Advisory Opinion Touches on Commonly-Raised Concepts for Mitigating Anti-Kickback Statute Risk By Lisa Prather While the recent US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) Advisory Opinion 23-05 primarily focuses on...
22 Sep, 2023 Health Equity: An Important Pillar of ESG By Johnjerica Hodge India Williams Arron Pak In recent years, the federal government has placed a renewed emphasis on addressing structural, policy, and operational challenges and...
06 Sep, 2023 CMS Calls for Novel Federal Staffing Standards in Nursing Homes By Nikita Yogeshwarun The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposal on September 1 calling for the first national minimum staffing...
29 Aug, 2023 Over $1.8 Billion Saved in 2022 Medicare Shared Savings Program: What Does This Indicate About CMS's Recent 2024 MSSP Proposals? By Katy Pollitt The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) announced on August 24 that the Medicare Shared Savings Program (the MSSP) had the...
23 Aug, 2023 New Texas Medical Billing Requirements Can Leave Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Unable to Collect for Services Provided By Joe Lecroy Tracie Bedeaux Starting September 1, 2023, health care facilities in Texas will have to make changes to their billing practices to comply with a newly...
23 Aug, 2023 Illinois Appellate Court Certifies That Health Facilities Are Immunized From Certain COVID-19 Negligent Injury Claims During Pandemic By Michael Callahan During the COVID-19 pandemic, Illinois Governor Pritzker issued an Executive Order, pursuant to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency...
14 Jul, 2023 CMS Initiative to Enhance Primary Care Services By Tracie Bedeaux On June 8, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new primary care model – the Making Care Primary (MCP) Model –...
05 Jun, 2023 New Medicare Coverage for Alzheimer's Disease Drugs By Cheryl Camin Murray Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that Medicare will cover drugs that could slow the progression of...
31 May, 2023 Texas Hospital-at-Home Program Is Official & HHSC Again Extends Emergency Rule By Ramana Rameswaran Kenya Scott Woodruff Michelle Apodaca Joe Lecroy +1 more... Show less Recently we published a post, titled "Texas Legislature Provides Pathway for Continuation of Hospital-at-Home Program," which discussed...