Federal Healthcare Policy Updates in Focus
Federal healthcare policy updates are reshaping reimbursement, oversight, and strategy for providers, investors, and senior care operators.
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CMS Releases Strategy on MAHA
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center), formerly known as CMMI and part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) under the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), has released a White Paper (CMS Innovation Center Strategy to Make America Healthy Again | CMS ) outlining a strategic direction … Read more
SCOTUS Chevron Decision a Win for Healthcare
Last week, the Supreme Court discarded a longstanding doctrine that granted regulatory agencies, such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, extensive leeway to establish regulations for the organizations under their jurisdiction. The decision (majority opinion) in the case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo is available here: SCOTUS Chevron Ruling The decision overturns a … Read more
Blast from the Past – Duties of Boards: An OIG Perspective
There are nearly 300 articles/posts on this site and from time to time, I’m going to repost an “oldie but a goodie” that is as applicable now as it was when I originally wrote it. This is from July of 2009. This follows well with Tuesday’s piece on OIG initiatives and SNFs…https://wp.me/ptUlY-BJ This seemed to … Read more
OIG Initiatives for SNFs
On the heels of a report released in January of this year, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services has created a series of regulatory reviews/quality initiatives for SNFs. The report focuses on the SNF experience during COVID and what, in the opinion of the OIG analysts, regulatory interventions … Read more
New HIPAA Provision Now in Effect
In August of 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services issued an interim final rule requiring that all HIPAA covered entities and their business associates develop notification requirements for a breach of unsecured protected health information (PHI). These new requirements are part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). In … Read more