The CMS Provides Guidelines for Hospitals to Reopen
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released on Sunday a set of guidelines on how hospitals are allowed to reopen for non-emergent non-COVID-19 healthcare amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. [...]
ACOs Looking to Drop Out from Shared Savings Program
In a survey from the National Association of ACOs, fifty six percent of risk-bearing ACOs stated that they are likely to drop out of the Medicare shared savings program. Most [...]
$34 Billion Provided to Providers by the Accelerated and Advance Payment Program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved funding to healthcare providers via the expansion of the Accelerated and Advance Payment Program. The funding totals near $34 billion [...]
Senate Passes COVID-19 Stimulus Deal
On Wednesday, the Senate passes a stimulus deal that would aid healthcare systems across the United States. The $2 trillion stimulus deal will include $100 billion to compensate for lost [...]
Interoperability Rules Finalized by HHS
Two agencies from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the final rules for interoperability and information-blocking proposals. Interoperability, which means the ability of health information systems [...]
Trump’s Proposed Policy Aims to Give Patients Control of Health Records
The Trump Administration is proposing a policy that will also patient medical records to be accessible to patients. The policy will give patients access to their personal medical records easily [...]
Profits from CSR Payments Examined by Judges
On Thursday, judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit raised their concerns that insurers were overly compensated from the subsidies received from the government is giving them, [...]
Stark Law Changes Supported by Physicians, Hospitals
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are pushing to change Stark law statutes to facilitate providers to be in value-based contracts without the concern of being blamed for [...]
Surprise Billing Legislation Omitted from Year-End Spending Deal
After months of debate over surprise billing and how to protect patients from out-of-network charges, lawmakers were not able to come to a compromise on the surprise billing proposal, failing [...]