On January 21, 2025, according to a memo made available by news outlets, Acting Secretary of HHS, Dr. Dorthy Fink, issued a memo directing the agency’s operating divisions to refrain from most external correspondence,...more
On July 31, 2024, CMS published a final rule updating the Medicare rates and policies applicable to inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs) under the IPF Prospective Payment System (PPS) and the IPF Quality Reporting Program...more
On July 31, 2024, CMS published a final rule updating the Medicare rates and policies applicable to inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) under the IRF Prospective Payment System (PPS) and the IRF Quality Reporting...more
CMS recently published its remedy in response to the Supreme Court’s decision that CMS’s 340B outpatient drug payment policy violated the Medicare statute. Many hospitals that are 340B covered entities will now receive tens...more
On August 1, 2023, CMS issued its annual Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS) Final Rule for FY 2024 (the Final Rule). In the Final Rule, CMS,...more
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In response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), CMS temporarily waived a significant number of Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) requirements and conditions of participation pursuant...more