HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, is expected to extend the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) today (October 13, 2022) for the 11th time. Coverage was extended to include Medicare beneficiaries in any geographic region, not just beneficiaries in rural areas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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Medisys Compliance

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The internet is ringing with the news of the CMS Updates Final rule for the 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The finalized 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule was announced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on November 1 2022. Medicare reimbursement for telehealth services.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2022

Postal Service and an online account this summer to connect with Medicaid enrollees about the expected end of the covid public health emergency, which will put many recipients at risk of losing their coverage. State Medicaid agencies for months have been preparing for the end of the public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This is why, as the new year approaches, Healthcare IT News has sat down with an expert in value-based care to get his views on what 2022 will hold for the payment system. Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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YouCompli

MARCH 29, 2023

In this article, she discusses several issues that hospitals and health systems need to consider as a result of the scheduled end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) reports that 80% of the U.S. population previously received at least one COVID-19 vaccination.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It has been several years since new HIPAA regulations have been signed into law, but HIPAA changes in 2022 are expected. The last update to the HIPAA Rules was the HIPAA Omnibus Rule in 2013, which introduced new requirements mandated by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.

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Medisys Compliance

MAY 19, 2022

During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), reimbursements for telehealth continue to evolve. The federal government, state Medicaid programs, and private insurers have expanded coverage for virtual health care services. See this list of telehealth services from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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Bill of Health

JULY 15, 2022

2022 Jun 13;OP2100756. 2022 Jun 6. Government Patent Use to Promote Public Health in the United States: Overcoming Nonpatent Exclusivities. Am J Public Health. 2022 Jun 16:e1-e5. 2022 Jun 21. 2022 Jun 7;327(21):2145-2147. 2022 Jun 22;377:o1452. 2022 Jun 8. 2022 Jun 21.

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C&M Health Law

JANUARY 25, 2023

The Act also did not provide the Department of Labor enforcement authority (which was requested in its 2022 Report to Congress) to issue civil monetary penalties against health plans that it finds are noncompliant with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA).

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Kaiser Permanente

JANUARY 1, 2022

With federal waivers and flexibilities associated with Medicaid in mind, there are three key trends we’ll be watching evolve in 2022: Increasing access to telehealth. Increasing access to mental health and substance use disorder services for people dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. population.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

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”). Comments are due by March 7, 2022. and 422.107).

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, now entering its fourth year in 2023, legislators, executives, and judges at every level of government have sought measures to derail efficacious public health interventions. And that’s where they are wrong. Some victories came easy. Yet, only 185 of these bills actually passed.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic led to sweeping healthcare policy changes that enable vulnerable Americans to receive affordable health coverage and access essential safety net benefits. Under the PHE, states must keep Medicaid enrollees continuously covered, irrespective of their circumstances. .

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Bill of Health

JULY 8, 2022

Throughout its October 2021-2022 term, the Supreme Court has shown no evidence of judicial restraint, dispelling any remaining illusions that the judiciary is, in the words of Alexander Bickel and Alexander Hamilton , “The Least Dangerous Branch.”. By Gregory Curfman. And there is Dobbs v. Gregory Curfman , M.D.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 9, 2022

Biden ( Missouri ), the Court by a 5-4 vote refused to stay a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) rule requiring health care workers in facilities that participate in Medicare or Medicaid to be vaccinated against COVID-19 (subject to legally-required exemptions) in order to protect patients. On January 13, in Missouri v.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 16, 2022

On Tuesday November 8, 2022, health and medical issues will be on many U.S. Health policy experts from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, AARP, and the United States of Care recently shared perspectives on the health care issues on voters’ and policy makers’ minds for the 2022 midterm elections.

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Innovaare Compliance

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Annual Election Period (AEP) is about two weeks away when Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plans (MAPD) will be signing up new enrollees by the thousands. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), enrollment in MAPD keeps rising. In 2022, 48% of all eligible Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in MAPD.

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Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The penalties — a 1% reduction in Medicare payments over 12 months — are based on the experiences of Medicare patients discharged from the hospital between July 2018 and the end of 2019, before the pandemic began in earnest. Paradoxically, all those hospitals have five stars, the best rating, on Medicare’s Care Compare website.

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Healthcare Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Medicare coverage expanded to include a vast arsenal of tools that help patients access medical services while keeping patients and practitioners safe. Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) declared a Public Health Emergency (the “PHE”). When does the PHE current expire?

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Hall Render

MARCH 28, 2023

On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced the COVID public health emergency (“PHE”) will expire and end on May 11, 2023. CMS ended several of the SNF blanket waivers in 2021 and 2022. In the CY 2022 Rule, CMS set December 31, 2024, as a termination date for most COVID SNF notification requirements.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act would amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income and Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers to treat benefits for telehealth services like excepted benefits. In an announcement about the bipartisan bill, Rep.

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C&M Health Law

AUGUST 10, 2022

On July 29, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule that updates Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and enacts changes to the SNF Quality Reporting Program and the SNF Value-Based Purchasing Program beginning in FY 2023.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

” which was originally published on January 5, 2022 on Medium. And for Wall Street, the speech was meant to provide a crucial piece of reassurance: There would be no federal support for public health measures that restrict commerce. Read the first , second , and third parts here. By Justin Feldman. for the first time.

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Healthcare Law Today

JANUARY 20, 2022

While the opioid crisis has been a declared public health emergency (PHE) since October 26, 2017, overdose deaths remain at an all-time high and have only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the 12-month period starting in April 2021, over 100,000 people have died from drug overdoses, a 28.5% The New Rule and the SUPPORT Act.

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Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Rebate Programs are administered as part of the prescription drug affordability provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (the “IRA”), which is aimed at “lower[ing] out-of-pocket drug costs for people with Medicare and improv[ing] the sustainability of the Medicare program for current and future generations.” [1]

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AIHC

JANUARY 28, 2022

For more information on filing compliance cost reports, attend the Medicare Cost Report Camp in March 2022 presented by KraftCPAs and sponsored by the American Institute of Healthcare Compliance. The FY 2022 IPPS and LTCH PPS final rule will be issued in multiple parts. This is known as the hospital “market basket.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 14, 2023

The administration says it seeks to bolster the IT posture of federal agencies by making "intentional investments at the right time" as well as address cybersecurity, health disparities and public health infrastructure needs. Increasing public health resilience For the U.S. Discretionary funding of $10.5

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Provider Trust

MAY 9, 2023

But these programs cannot be controlled by Medicaid and Medicare alone. Released in March 2023, MFCU’s Fiscal Year 2022 Annual Report is comprised of easy-to-read statistical data and infographic charts that provide a look into the fraud and abuse outcomes from the past year. Only 20 of the 1,641 were civil investigations.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This feels especially apt right “now” as we enter 2022, Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, with people mentally stressed, anxious, and shrugging off the Omicron variant – while taking on more DIY life-flows, self-care and desire for (more) control. We start at a macro bird’s-eye view with Gartner’s top US consumer and cultural trends for 2022.

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Healthcare Law Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

With over 10,000 people in attendance, HLTH 2022 was inspiring and covered a wide range of subjects from health equity to the future of the digital health investment environment. The State of Mental Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

A bipartisan group of legislators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act – first introduced in 2016 – to expand opportunities and coverage for telehealth through Medicare. Remove unnecessary in-person visit requirements for telemental health services.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

In the CY 2022 Rule, CMS set December 31, 2024, as a termination date for most COVID SNF notification requirements. The authority to make those blanket waivers was granted under Sections 1135 and 1812(f) of the Social Security Act and allowed the Department of Health and Human Services to implement certain regulatory waivers during the PHE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2023

Notably, by July 2022, all state Medicaid programs provided at least some audio-only coverage for behavioral wellness. Guth also said that Medicaid program respondents also indicated that they are awaiting federal guidance to inform their long-term telehealth policy decisions, such as Medicare policies. " THE LARGER TREND.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Medicare payment policy changes established under the CMS CY 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (“MPFS”) Final Rule , issued on November 1, 2022, become effective January 1, 2023. These services will be reported with three separate Medicare-specific G codes. Behavioral Health Services. Split/Shared E/M Visits.

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Hall Render

MARCH 16, 2022

On Tuesday, March 15, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022 ( H.R. 2471 ) that funds the federal government for the remainder of FY 2022. An overview of the FY 2022 funding bill and a summary of its health care-related provisions can be found below. million increase.

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