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HHS Issues Proposed Rule to Provide Clarity on Rights of Conscience in Healthcare

Healthcare Law Blog

The PHS Act requires post-graduate physician training programs that do not perform induced abortions to be deemed accredited and protects governmental payments provided as reimbursement for carrying out health related activities. Medicaid and Medicare The Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Public Law 105–33, 111 Stat.

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Editorial: 5 Gaps in HIPAA and How They Are Being Filled

HIPAA Journal

The passage of HIPAA resulted in multiple benefits for the health insurance industry, the healthcare industry, and the people that they serve. For example, the Administrative Requirements (Part 162) helped reduce insurance fraud and accelerated eligibility inquiries, authorization requests, and claims processing.

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How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?

Health Populi

Add into this picture a CCS Insight analyst’s forecast last week that Apple could enter the health insurance market in 2024. ” Over 11 years ago, I listened to Dr. Toby Cosgrove, then CEO of The Cleveland Clinic, warn in his 2011 State of the Clinic annual address that, “we have to do better with less.”

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CMS’ Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs

Healthcare Law Blog

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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October-December 2021 State Regulatory Developments

New Jersey Healthcare Blog

1791(c), the Department of Human Services, Division of Aging Services, Office of the State Health Insurance for the Aged and Disabled, readopted a rule regarding the Senior Gold Prescription Program Manual. On October 18, 2021, at 53 N.J.R. See readopted N.J.A.C. On October 18, 2021, at 53 N.J.R. On November 1, 2021, at 53 N.J.R.

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CMS Begins Option to Extend Medicaid Postpartum Coverage

Healthcare Law Blog

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”). 1] Kaiser Family Foundation, Medicaid Postpartum Coverage Extension Tracker (Mar. 31, 2022). [2]

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While National Health Care Spending Growth Slowed in 2017, One Stakeholder’s Financial Burden Grew: The Consumer’s

Health Populi

These annual numbers come out of the annual report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, published yesterday in Health Affairs. Underneath these macro-health economic numbers is the fact that inflation averaged 1.6% This means that health care spending grew twice the rate of inflation.