Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2022

Norden is particularly passionate about funding companies focused on the Medicaid population – a traditionally tricky and often ignored area. What has been one digital health investment trend during the COVID-19 pandemic, and why is it important? Worse yet, COVID-19 has exacerbated mental and behavioral health issues.

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C&M Health Law

JANUARY 25, 2023

Notably, the Act neither fulfilled the Biden Administration’s request for additional COVID-19 response funding nor included the Verifying Accurate Leading-edge In Vitro Clinical Test (IVCT) Development (VALID) Act, which proposed updating the current diagnostic testing regulatory framework. 117-164 ) (the “Act”)—an approximately $1.7

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

On April 1, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced states may seek to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from 60 days to one year through a new state plan option offered by the American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”). In states that have not expanded Medicaid, however, many postpartum women lose coverage.

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Health Law Attorney

APRIL 22, 2021

By way of background, the Budget Control Act of 2011 required mandatory across-the-board reductions to be made in federal spending, otherwise referred to as “sequestration.” In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“ CARES ”) Act in March 2020.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 6, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued the proposed rule on Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs (the “Proposed Rule”). Additional Opportunities for Integration through State Medicaid Agency Contracts.

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Healthcare Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

On November 1, 2018 , CMS issued a proposed rule that, among other changes, would use extrapolation in RADV contract-level audits of MAOs starting with payment year 2011 contract-level audits and would not apply a FFS Adjuster to such audit findings. FOOTNOTES. [1]

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Hall Render

MARCH 16, 2022

billion in new COVID-19 emergency funding requested by the White House was removed at the last moment after some rank and file House Democrats objected to a cost offset that rescinded $7 billion in unused state and local government aid from previous COVID-19 relief laws. A section of the bill that would have provided $15.6

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