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Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule Proposes New Quality-Driven Payment Policies

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Within its proposed CY 2025 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) rule (the Proposed Rule), CMS is proposing to implement new payment policies intended to advance health equity and support whole-person care. CMS expects these new...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

CMS Issues Additional Flexibilities to the ACO REACH Model’s Benefit Enhancements

As Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and providers gear up for the start of the new ACO REACH Model in 2023, CMS recently issued helpful policy updates to the model’s benefit enhancements (BEs). Under BEs, CMS waives...more

McDermott Will & Emery

CMS Announces Request for Applications for Participation In the ACO REACH Model

On February 24, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center announced a Request for Applications (RFA) for the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Realizing Equity, Access, and Community...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

“REACHing” For Health Equity: CMS Revamps The Professional Direct Contracting Model

On February 24, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its redesign of the Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model (GPDC), which now will be called the Accountable Care Organization (ACO)...more

King & Spalding

CMS Releases Final Rule Regarding Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule and Several Other Changes to Medicare Part B...

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Last week, CMS issued a final rule addressing several topics, including changes to the physician fee schedule (PFS) and changes to Medicare Part B payment policies. Key changes include a net reduction in the PFS conversion...more

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Searching for Safe Harbors? CMS-Sponsored Model Participants Receive Anti-Kickback Statute Protection

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Enrolling in such a CMS-sponsored innovation model now has an added benefit: a new Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) safe harbor. ...In its mission to reward value over volume, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS)...more

King & Spalding

Rural Hospitals and Doctors Get HHS Assistance with New Payment Model

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On August 11, 2020, the CMS Innovation Center, the office within HHS with authority to create and test healthcare payment systems, announced a new payment model – the Community Health Access and Rural Transformation (CHART)...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Manatt on Medicaid: Massachusetts Releases Details on Forthcoming DSRIP Waiver Proposal

Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations - On April 14, 2016, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services released new details on a proposed restructuring of the MassHealth (Massachusetts Medicaid)...more

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