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The History of Healthcare Compliance

MedTrainer

Licensing and credentialing were introduced to regulate healthcare professionals and ensure minimum standards of care. Affordable Care Act (2010): The ACA introduced the concept of value-based care, emphasizing quality and patient outcomes over quantity of services.

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CMS Updates IPPS Rates, Wage Index and DSH Uncompensated Care in 2024 Final Rule

Hall Render

On August 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued its Final Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (“IPPS”) and Long-Term Care Hospital (“LTCH”) PPS rule for fiscal year (“FY”) 2024 (“Final Rule”). The Final Rule increases the rate for IPPS payments by 3.3%

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Revised Updates for Renal Dialysis Billing

Medisys Compliance

Proposed ESRD Payment System. This rule also proposes an update to the Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) dialysis payment rate for renal dialysis services furnished by ESRD facilities for calendar year (CY) 2023. Direct nursing services include registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, technicians, social workers, and dietitian.

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How the Fifty States View Electronic Data as a “Product”

Drug & Device Law

2011), construed this statute and held that an “electronic payment system does not come within the strictures of the statute” because it was not a “product” as contemplated in Restatement Third §19. Dental Organization for Conscious Sedation, LLC , 2010 WL 5146603, at *2-3 (E.D. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation , 613 F.