Kaiser Health News
JANUARY 28, 2022
A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against a frustrating and confusing rule that left hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries without coverage for nursing home care, and no way to challenge a denial. But it can have serious repercussions.
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”). Refining Definitions for Fully Integrated and Highly Integrated D-SNPs (§§ 422.2
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 5, 2022
Some changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule for telehealth items in Australia – including the termination of 128 items, amendment of 17 items, and the addition of two more items – have taken effect this week. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. The changes come following the recommendations by the MBS Review Taskforce.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
After declining for six years, the burnout rate among doctors began to spike with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research by the American Medical Association, Mayo Clinic and Stanford Medicine. Reforming Medicare payment. WHY IT MATTERS. physicians was 62.8% in 2021, compared with 38.2% in 2020, 43.9%
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.
Health Law Attorney
APRIL 22, 2021
The Act extends the temporary suspension of certain mandatory Medicare FFS claim payment reductions until December 31, 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.” Continue Reading ?.
American Medical Compliance
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an influx of doctor burnout. A recent study published in the medical journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that physician burnout increased during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic following a six-year drop that ended in 2020. doctors was 62.8%. in 2020, 43.9%
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