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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. REHs may only provide observation services, but must maintain an average length of stay for those of less than 24 hours.

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Investigation of Hospitals Hiding Prices from Patients

AIHC

Noncompliance with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule The Hospital Price Transparency Final Rule (“the final rule”) was published in November 2019 and went into effect on January 2021. In 2019, the federal government finalized a rule requiring hospitals to disclose the prices they negotiate with insurers.

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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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AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Staff members were unsure if Medicare and Medicaid would honor the prospective payment-system rate. Decisions were not made yet on the level of payment. AccessHealth’s licensed chemical dependency counselors are integrated within the medical adult clinics. Traditional therapy via telehealth is the popular choice."

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

Drug & Device Law

2019 WL 4751807, at *8 (D. 30, 2019) (“a patent application is not a tangible good. . . 2019), precluded assertion of strict liability in litigation over a bank loan. 2019), similarly held that a website designer owed no duty under California negligence, because the defendant’s “content-neutral functions. . .