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Home Health PPS Proposed Rule for CY 2024: Broad Rule Has Something for Everyone

Hall Render

On Friday, June 20, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) posted a pre-publication copy of the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update (“PPS Rule”), which has since been published in the Federal Register and is currently open for comment. Physical Therapy 3.30

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Modernizing Medicare to Take Advantage of the Latest Technologies

CMS.gov

Tue, 10/02/2018 - 13:57. However, while medical technology is developing at a rapid pace, Medicare’s payment systems haven’t always been as quick to change. It’s no secret that the government often moves more slowly than private industry — some of our payment policies haven’t been updated in decades. Seema Verma.

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Gearing up for Immunizations

Redox

Immunization information systems (IIS) have received special focus as part of government health initiatives (Meaningful Use 1 and 2), so every state has one or more: More accurate information about the number of distinct IIS in the US: [link] — Lisa Bari (she/her/hers) (@lisabari) November 17, 2020. Return of the MU).

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

There’s an RFI out right now, published as part of the federales’ “ Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care ,” announced by HHS Secretary Alex Azar in mid-2018. healthcare “system.” ” (Let’s just say here that the jury is still out. It’s a topic for a longer discussion.)

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

There’s an RFI out right now, published as part of the federales’ “ Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care ,” announced by HHS Secretary Alex Azar in mid-2018. healthcare “system.” ” (Let’s just say here that the jury is still out. It’s a topic for a longer discussion.)

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

Drug & Device Law

Since digital files were not “articles” under the statute, the government could not rely on this statute to prevent their importation. 2018), rejected a purported duty to modify an electronic product component to disable product use while the user was driving. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC , 2018 WL 6599901, at *5 (D. at 1291-92.