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2024 Final Rule: CMS Announces More Changes to Medicare Advantage but Declines to Reform the “60 Day Rule”

Health Care Law Brief

On April 5, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the 2024 Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Benefit Programs Final Rule (“Final Rule”), which will be codified at 42 C.F.R. Parts 417, 422, 423, 455, and 460.

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Virtual Care and Mental Health Top of Mind for Employers’ Workplaces in 2023

Health Populi

Another key lens to keep front-and-center is employers’ embrace of determinants of health to bolster equity, inclusion, and population health outcomes. I’ll call out food access here at the 20% of employers saying they will consider this SDoH for 2024-2025.

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Americans Come Together in Worries About Medical Bills, the Cost of Health Care, and Prescription Drug Costs

Health Populi

there is still a negative feeling about the economy in a personal context, revealed in the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll for February 2024. Indeed, abortion, IVF and women’s health care access may be explicitly on ballots and news media polls at the top health care issue in America.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Jane Sarashon

While the digital health stakeholder community is convening this week at VIVE in Los Angeles to share innovations in health tech, NABIP has assembled health insurance leaders in Washington, DC, for the 2024 Capital Conference to focus on major health reform issues that are top-of-mind for health care payors — which in today’s U.S.

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Weekly Health Care Real Estate Briefing: DEA To Extend Telehealth Flexibilities | CON Denials in Missouri and Alaska

Hall Render

State officials rejected Alaska Regional Hospital’s CON application to build a freestanding ED in South Anchorage, finding that the facility would neither improve access to quality care nor reduce patient costs. South Carolina Gov. The bill passed in the state legislature earlier this year.

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California Releases Proposed Regulations on Health Care Transaction Notice Requirements

Health Care Law Brief

On July 27, 2023, California’s Office of Health Care Access and Information (the “ Office ”) released its long-awaited proposed regulations on the notice requirements for material health care transactions in California.

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OHCA’s Revised Regulations Following Comments from Industry Stakeholders

Healthcare Law Blog

As we anticipated in our previous blog article , the Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) made revisions to its proposed regulations following the public workshop hosted by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) in August.