1/30/2020 9:37:58 PM HHS Sustains Digital Health Momentum and Continues Publishing Policy Initiatives to Kick-off 2020 By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Rebecca Dittrich The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) started the new decade by keeping up its momentum to encourage patient engagement...
1/27/2020 9:29:47 PM January Congressional Hearings Focus on Cannabis, Opioids, Other Health Priorities By Debra McCurdy Health policy has been the focus of several House Energy and Commerce Committee hearings this month. Notably, the Energy and Commerce...
1/17/2020 8:21:23 PM HHS Boosts Civil Monetary Penalties Again By Debra McCurdy The Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) has just published its “annual” inflation update to civil monetary penalty amounts...
1/17/2020 8:20:12 PM CMS Wants Input on Role of Out-of-State Medicaid Providers in Coordinating Care for Children with Medically Complex Conditions By Debra McCurdy The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a Request for Information (RFI) on how the Medicaid program can...
1/16/2020 11:27:23 PM Federal Appeals Court Amends Stark Law Opinion to Remove Controversial “Volume or Value” Interpretation, but Uncertainty Remains By Karl Thallner On December 20, 2019, the Federal appeals court panel that heard U.S. ex rel. Bookwalter v. UPMC, No. 18-1693 (3d Cir.), amended its...
1/16/2020 8:00:51 PM HHS Continuing to Reduce Medicare ALJ Appeals Backlog under Court Order; Senators Reintroduce Legislation Striving to Improve Efficiency of Medicare Appeals Process By Rahul Narula The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is ahead of schedule to reduce its Medicare Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) appeals...
1/6/2020 12:48:19 PM OIG Accepting Recommendations for New Anti-kickback Safe Harbors and Fraud Alerts By Debra McCurdy The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued its annual solicitation of recommendations for new or revised Anti-kickback Statute...