Hall Render

JUNE 8, 2023

On June 7, CMS issued a much-anticipated Final Rule addressing the placement of Medicare Advantage patient days within the Medicare DSH calculation. The Final Rule adopts a retroactive policy that will place Medicare Advantage days in the Medicare Fraction of the DSH calculation for discharges before October 1, 2013.

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Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) concerning pharmaceutical manufacturers’ offers of cost-sharing subsidies to Medicare Part D (“Part D”) beneficiaries. The government, through Medicare, would foot the rest of the over-$111,000 bill for the year. [3] PCPA also argued that OIG Ad.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

It is an intersectional movement, theory, and praxis initially conceived in 2005 by queer, trans, gender non-conforming, and racialized disabled people. Moreover, replacing existing safety net programs, like SSI, with universal basic income would simplify the administration of these programs and shrink government spending.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

BACKGROUND The Proposed Rule is the latest in a long line of federal legislation and rulemakings governing the conscience rights of healthcare providers and entities. The Church Amendments In the 1970s, the federal government enacted the Church Amendments, 42 U.S.C.

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Healthcare Law Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Pharmaceutical manufacturers are challenging the breadth of the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) in federal court, arguing that the government is harming the very vulnerable patients it aims to serve by prohibiting cost-sharing subsidies for life-saving oncology drugs. and $500.39. [4].

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 3, 2023

Some scholars have interpreted this to mean that the federal government has the right under the Commerce Clause to regulate all medical licensure. Gupta cites the Dormant Commerce Clause doctrine, a court-invented principle which allows the federal government to strike down state laws deemed excessively burdensome to interstate trade.

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Kaiser Health News

DECEMBER 10, 2021

That’s the largest number of such facilities to shut down in a single year since 2005, when the Cecil G. In several of those states, including Georgia, Republican-led governments have said such a step would be too costly. .” The Cuthbert hospital was one of 19 rural hospitals in the U.S. that closed in 2020.

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