Last week, over seventy bipartisan members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter urging CMS to reverse proposed cuts in the CY 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule (the PFS Proposed Rule)...more
CMS and OIG released highly anticipated final changes to the rules implementing the Stark Law, the safe harbors issued under the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the beneficiary inducements provision in the civil monetary...more
12/1/2020
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Value-Based Care
On February 20, 2020, CMS released a proposed rule that would extend the bundled-payment model for joint replacement surgery for an additional three years and broaden its scope to include outpatient procedures (the Proposed...more
2/28/2020
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