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Compliance with Medicare’s updated 2024 split (or shared) visit policy

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Split (or shared) visits—the current term used by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)—allow non-physician practitioners (NPPs) and physicians who work for the same employer/entity to share patient visits on the...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Holland & Knight Health Dose: February 6, 2024

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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

ArentFox Schiff

Providing Remuneration to Address Physician Burnout: Stark Law Considerations

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Hospitals and Other Providers Should Make Sure Any Items or Services of Value That They Provide to Their Referring Physicians To Alleviate Burnout Comply With the Stark Law - Amidst the ongoing labor market shortages and...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

News Flash: Last Minute Congressional Action Saves Physicians from a Nearly 10% Cut to Medicare Payments

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Physicians and other providers can take a deep breath as Congress has acted to prevent the trio of Medicare payment cuts that were set to take effect at the beginning of 2022—a 3.75% cut due to scheduled changes in the...more

K&L Gates LLP

2021 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule

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On 3 August 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule (Proposed Rule) for Calendar Year (CY) 2021.1 The agency will accept comments on the Proposed Rule...more

King & Spalding

Also In The News - Health Headlines - July 2015 #2

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CMS and AMA Announce Efforts to Help Providers Get Ready for ICD-10 – On July 6, 2015, CMS and AMA announced efforts to continue to assist providers to get ready for the upcoming October 1 switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 coding...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

CMS Proposes to Establish Separate Payment for End of Life Planning Services

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On July 8, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that updates payment rates and related reimbursement and quality policies for physician services furnished under the Medicare...more

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AMA To Recommend Physicians Be Paid For End-Of-Life Planning

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Brace yourself for a reprise of the death panel debate of 2009. The AMA will soon formally recommend to CMS that physicians be paid—or “reimbursed” in health care-speak—for talking with Medicare patients and their families...more

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