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Breaking News for Breakthrough Devices: CMS Finalizes Transitional Coverage for Emerging Technologies Pathway

On August 7, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a Final Notice for Transitional Coverage for Emerging Technologies (TCET) (Final Notice). The long-anticipated Final Notice on the TCET pathway...more

8/14/2024 / Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Health Care Providers , Medical Devices , Medicare

HHS finalizes changes to Section 1557 regulations strengthening anti-discrimination protections

On April 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized updates to regulations implementing Section 1557 of the...more

5/8/2024 / Affordable Care Act , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Health Care Providers , Health Insurance , Non-Discrimination Rules , Section 1557

CMS finalizes new standards and reporting obligations affecting Medicaid and CHIP managed care plans

On April 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Managed Care Access, Finance, and Quality Final Rule and the Ensuring Access to...more

5/6/2024 / Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) , Health Care Providers , Managed Care Contracts , Medicaid

NY physician practice, MSO, and other health care transactions affected by new reporting rules

The New York legislature recently enacted new reporting requirements that will affect health care transactions across the state. Effective August 1, 2023, certain “material” mergers, acquisitions, affiliation agreements, and...more

6/23/2023 / Corporate Sales Transactions , Health Care Providers , Healthcare , Hospital Mergers , Joint Venture , New York , Popular , Public Health , Reporting Requirements , Transaction Reporting

After the Public Health Emergency: Implications for Medicare and U.S federal health care policies

On January 30, 2020, the Biden Administration announced that it intends to allow the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency (collectively, “PHE”) to expire effective on May 11, 2023. The termination of the...more

3/13/2023 / Biden Administration , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Coronavirus/COVID-19 , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Health Care Providers , OIG , Public Health Emergency

World Stem Cell Summit panel cautions over stepped up HCT/P enforcement, reimbursement issues

Speaking at the World Stem Cell Summit hosted by the Regenerative Medicine Foundation last week, Hogan Lovells partners Mike Druckman, Stuart Langbein, and Thomas Beimers discussed evolving government reimbursement issues for...more

6/30/2022 / Biotechnology , Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , FDA Approval , Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , Health Care Providers , Medicare , Regenerative Medicine

CMS proposes changes to new-technology add-on payment amounts and criteria in the inpatient prospective payment system proposed...

On 23 April 2019 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2020...more

4/29/2019 / Add-ons , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Health Care Providers , Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) , Life Sciences , Long Term Care Facilities , Medical Devices , Payment Systems , Regulatory Agenda , Request For Information , Rulemaking Process

CMS request for information presents rare opportunity for medicare stakeholder engagement

On 14 April 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the fiscal year (FY) 2018 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective...more

4/24/2017 / Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Comment Period , Health Care Providers , Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) , Long Term Care Facilities , Medicaid , Medicare , Request For Information , Stakeholder Engagement

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