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On December 18, 2024, a bipartisan group of four Senators on the Senate Finance Committee released draft legislation that would expand the total number of Medicare Graduate Medical Education (GME) full-time equivalent (FTE)...more
Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector....more
With only two weeks remaining in the year, Congress is considering a government funding deal (the “Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2025” or the “Bill”) that includes a...more
During the COVID-19 pandemic, both federal and state governments enacted a host of laws and implemented flexibilities to ensure health care providers, hospitals, and health systems could move traditional brick-and-mortar care...more
The temporary telehealth flexibilities that Medicare patients and providers have become accustomed to since the COVID-19 pandemic are set to expire December 31, 2024. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 extended many...more
The No Surprises Act, a law that ended the practice of “balance billing” by certain out-of-network providers, was enacted as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 on December 27, 2020. While the law passed...more
Updated November 18, 2024 – The Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), 2023 (Public Law 117-328), signed into law on December 29, 2022, extended certain key telehealth flexibilities instituted during the COVID-19 public...more
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld regulations defining the qualifying payment amount (QPA). The QPA is a key factor in determining how much individuals and health plans must pay out-of-network providers in...more
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the invalidity of regulations governing the independent review process under the No Surprise Billing Rules....more
CMS's FY 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule (Final Rule) finalizes several noteworthy proposals related to graduate medical education (GME) payment opportunities. Below are the takeaways from the...more
The U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Treasury, along with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), released FAQs about the implementation of Title I of Division BB of the Consolidated...more
On April 23, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published final rules setting forth Changes to the Medicare Advantage and the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program for Contract Year 2024--Remaining...more
The Federal No Surprises Act (“NSA”) was signed into law on December 27, 2020, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. Since its enactment, the NSA has been supplemented on two occasions by regulations which...more
In connection with the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, marriage & family therapists (“MFTs”) as well as licensed professional clinical counselors (“LPCCs”) are eligible to receive payment from the Medicare...more
As 2023 comes to a close, I can’t help but reflect on all the regulations and policies we reviewed this year (and those that we’ll continue to handle next week before the year actually ends). There were some tasty eggs with...more
The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule, released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) earlier this month, extended certain telehealth-related flexibilities that were implemented during the early...more
The CY 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (Final Rule) implemented several statutory extensions to COVID-19 telehealth waivers and flexibilities, finalized proposed policies, and extended an important telehealth...more
Summary - The rules in the Consolidated Appropriations Act that aim to eliminate much of the surprise from billings by out-of-network providers in particular situations are the subject of continued controversy....more
Health care professionals have faced increasing burnout and mental health issues in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In an effort to address these rising issues, Congress passed the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider...more
CMS recently released the CY 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Proposed Rule (Proposed Rule), which included many noteworthy proposals and clarifications related to Medicare telehealth services and other remote...more
Summary - By December 31, 2023, health plans and insurers must submit an attestation of compliance with the anti-gag rules of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA). The rules apply to all agreements entered into...more
In this episode, Alexander Chu and Ashley Davis review the end of the continuous Medicaid enrollment condition as a result of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. They discuss potential impacts of the disenrollment...more
Telehealth experienced massive growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, due in no small part to various regulatory and reimbursement policies that federal agencies implemented following a declaration by the US Department of...more
As a part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (CAA), Congress passed new exceptions to the Physician Self-Referral Law (Stark Law) and the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) allowing certain healthcare entities to...more
Healthcare providers are scrambling to understand the impacts of the May 11 expiration of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). Luckily for most telehealth providers, the outlook of their operations post-PHE is...more