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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. MACRA (2015): The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) introduced the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Models (APMs).

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HHS Publishes Proposed Payments for Rural Emergency Hospitals

Hall Render

The proposed payment policies include an initial monthly facility fee of approximately $268,000 per month, which will adjust in future years based on a market-basket update. Proposed REH Payments. CMS ultimately proposed a monthly facility payment of $268,294 (just over $3.2 5 Percent OPPS Increase. million per year) for 2023.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

Nevada, currently the wild west of birthing, is considering licensing midwifery NEW HAMPSHIRE Dartmouth Health opens new 5-story patient pavilion Report: Anthem has yet to process nearly $300 million in N.H. no longer calls for masks at all health care facilities to fight COVID-19, Gov.

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

Drug & Device Law

135 (Winter 2015) (citation and quotation marks omitted). 2015), held that digital files for 3D printing were not material things as required to invoke the Tariff Act of 1930. 2015) (collecting cases). 2015), review denied (Cal. 2015 WL 5542992, at *22 (N.D. 17, 2015), aff’d , 783 F. 1145, 1165 n.135