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Noteworthy GME Payment Policy Takeaways from the CMS FY 2025 IPPS Proposed Rule

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CMS's FY 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule (Proposed Rule) includes several noteworthy proposals and requests for information related to graduate medical education (GME) payment policies. Below...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Extends Telehealth Flexibilities

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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

Baker Donelson

2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule Extends COVID-19 Telehealth Policies and Includes Bonus Extension

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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

Stevens & Lee

New Stark Law Exception and Anti-Kickback Statute Safe Harbor Aim to Combat Physician Burnout

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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

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CY 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Extending Telehealth Flexibilities and Seeking Future Policy Input

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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

ArentFox Schiff

Physician Wellness Programs: A New Stark Law Exception and AKS Safe Harbor to Combat Burnout

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The recently passed Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) of 2023 includes a new Stark Law exception and Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) safe harbor, allowing hospitals and other health care entities to offer their physicians...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Hidden in Plain Sight: Lesser-Known Exceptions Recently Adopted by Congress to the Federal Physician Self-Referral Law and...

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At the end of 2022, Congress enacted the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (“CAA”), for which there has been much fanfare.   As it relates to health care, this legislation included provisions addressing issues such...more

Holland & Knight LLP

CMS Issues 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Calendar Year (CY) 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule on Nov. 1, 2022, which impacts Medicare Part B payments starting on Jan. 1, 2023....more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Congress Extends Telehealth Coverage

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The President and Congress extended Medicare telehealth coverage in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, which also included additional Ukrainian relief. On Tuesday, March 15, 2022, President Biden signed the Consolidated...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

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

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

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Post-Pandemic Access to Telehealth:  Highlights of the CMS 2022 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule

Last week, CMS announced its final Physician Fee Schedule Payment Policies (the “Final Rule”), which will become effective January 1, 2022. The Final Rule included several updates to Medicare coverage of telehealth services,...more

McGuireWoods Consulting

Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule Addresses Telehealth, Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program

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On Nov. 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule to update the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and address other Medicare Part B issues for Calendar Year (CY) 2022. The rule, which goes...more

McDermott Will & Emery

CMS Addresses Virtual Care Expansion in CY 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposal

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On July 23, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its annual proposed changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), which include several key telehealth and other virtual care-related...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

CMS issues physician fee schedule update

Compliance Today (March 2021) - On January 7, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Learning Network released the following physician fee schedule update...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Is This the Worst Medicare Telehealth Law of 2020?

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The Public Health Emergency introduced a myriad of changes to federal and state telemedicine and digital health laws and rules. There were expansions to telehealth coverage and reimbursement, suspension of enforcement on...more

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Consolidated Appropriations Act Includes GME Support Provisions

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The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, creates 1,000 new Medicare-funded graduate medical education (GME) residency positions, expands opportunities for rural residency training, and allows hospitals that have very low...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Year-End Appropriations Bill Includes Myriad Medicare Policy Changes

The Big Picture - Until late December, few if any Medicare policy changes were anticipated as part of a year-end healthcare package, barring extensions of funding for programs that otherwise would have expired. But after...more

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