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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPAC), also known as Obamacare, is a United States federal statute passed in March of 2010. The Act creates a nationwide insurance system and provides federal... more +

CMS Audits on the Horizon: Prepare for Increased CMS Audits Under the Sunshine Act

Gardner Law on 5/15/2024

Historically, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has not aggressively pursued enforcement activity under the Sunshine Act. However, this may change in 2024. Late last year, CMS updated its Open Payments...more

Proposal Calls for Increased Transparency of Ownership for Privately Owned Nursing Homes

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 3/9/2022

Continuing the theme of increased transparency of ownership of nursing homes included in the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the White House issued a Fact Sheet titled “Protecting Seniors and People with Disabilities by Improving...more

Client Alert: District Court of Appeals Upholds Hospital Charges Transparency Rule

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP on 1/12/2021

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 required that hospitals annually establish and make public a list of its “standard charges.” Health and Human Services (HHS) historically allowed hospitals to comply by posting their charge...more

Healthcare Executive Order Suggests Changes Are Coming

White and Williams LLP on 6/26/2019

On June 24, 2019, President Trump issued the “Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First” (the Order). The Order directs several executive agencies to issue...more

New York Enacts Out-Of-Network Transparency and Coverage Reform

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 7/9/2014

Last month, a woman sued a health plan, claiming that she was intentionally misled about which physicians were participating providers in the company’s online health insurance exchange established under the Affordable Care...more

Health Care Update

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 5/20/2014

In This Issue: - Transparency Latest Weapon against Rising Health Care Costs - Implementation of the Affordable Care Act - Other Federal Regulatory Initiatives - Other Congressional and State Initiatives -...more

The push for greater transparency in healthcare continues

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/15/2014

Recently, CMS released the proposed fiscal year 2015 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) rule for inpatient stays in long-term and general acute care hospitals. Included among the regular updates to Medicare payment...more

Predictions For Top 10 Healthcare Stories For 2014

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx on 1/16/2014

The past year was one of the most eventful in recent memory for healthcare policy. As the Affordable Care Act ("ACA") continued its inexorable, albeit at times wobbly, march towards implementation, the headlines became more...more

Obamacare’s New Wave Of Transparency

Snell & Wilmer on 9/24/2013

In A 1913 Harper’s Weekly article titled “What Publicity Can Do,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis made his famous statement that “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants” in arguing for greater disclosure...more

Agencies Issue New FAQs Regarding Implementation of ACA

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive... on 5/1/2013

The US Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Treasury (the “Agencies”) jointly issued yesterday a document entitled “FAQs about the Affordable Care Act Implementation Part XV” (“FAQs”) addressing four...more

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