On April 5, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) issued a unanimous recommendation to decrease some urban outpatient hospitals’ Medicare payments, while increasing rural hospital payments to improve emergency...more
On December 29, 2017, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted the government’s motion to dismiss a pre-implementation challenge to CMS’s policy to cut the Medicare reimbursement rate for...more
On October 30, 2017, Chemed and several of its subsidiaries, including Vitas Hospice Services LLC and Vitas Healthcare Corporation (Vitas), entered into a $75 million settlement to resolve allegations that Vitas submitted...more
On August 18, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that HHS had inadequately justified its inclusion of data from hospitals that allegedly “turbo-charged” their cost-to-charge ratio when...more
On June 12, 2017, OIG released a report on Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments, claiming that between May 2011 and June 2014, CMS paid an estimated $729 million to eligible professionals...more