Telehealth, Medicaid, Medicare Shared Savings Program

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

King & Spalding on 7/23/2024

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

Rural Hospitals and Doctors Get HHS Assistance with New Payment Model

King & Spalding on 8/31/2020

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

CMS Announces Further Rule Changes to Address Pandemic

Rivkin Radler LLP on 5/4/2020

On April 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced numerous regulatory waivers and rule changes to, among other things, expand Medicare beneficiaries’ access to coronavirus testing and telehealth...more

Healthcare Law Update: September 2018

Holland & Knight LLP on 9/7/2018

Regulation - CMS Contemplating Telemedicine Changes - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published what it described as a "major proposed rule" that covers a number of topics that could have...more

Health Update - February 2016

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 2/26/2016

Better Late Than Never: CMS Provides Much-Needed Clarity on the 60-Day Overpayment Refund Requirements - On February 12, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the long-awaited final rule (Final...more

Medicare Shared Savings Program: Final Rule

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 6/17/2015

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its Final Rule on the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). The Final Rule provides additional flexibility to accountable care organizations...more