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

Drug & Device Law

2012), computer code was not a “product” for purposes of the National Stolen Property Act, 18 U.S.C. 2012 WL 5932437 (N.D. 27, 2012), limited the undefined term “product” in an Alabama sales commission statute to tangible things, excluding franchise rights. 3d 316, 338 (Alaska 2012). 2012 WL 12886210, at *3 (C.D.