Healthcare Law Blog
JANUARY 26, 2024
On December 13, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a proposed rule, titled Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes (“Proposed Rule”), to improve patient and provider access to health information and streamline processes related to prior authorizations for medical items and services.
Hall Render
MARCH 20, 2024
The Final Rule also imposes additional reporting requirements under the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals and for eligible clinicians reporting under the Promoting Interoperability performance category of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System.
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Health Populi
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
Three factors will drive healthcare costs to 2026: prices for medical goods and services, changes in income growth, and shifting enrollment from private health insurance to Medicare — driven by the aging of Boomers. What are those “fundamentals” pushing up healthcare spending?
C&M Health Law
DECEMBER 23, 2022
The regulations impact CMS-regulated payers and provide incentives for providers and hospitals that participate in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program and the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Most of the Proposed Rule’s provisions will be effective on January 1, 2026. Our initial takeaways are summarized below.
Healthcare Law Blog
DECEMBER 15, 2022
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a proposed rule , “Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes” (the “Proposed Rule”), that is intended to improve patient and provider access to health information and streamline processes related to prior authorization for medical items and services.
Health Populi
JUNE 13, 2018
. “Employer health spending has grown from 6 percent of total wages in 1988 to more than 12 percent in 2018,” driven by healthcare prices growing faster than the general economy, and the adoption of new technologies, procedures, and increasingly expensive new prescription drugs, PwC observes. economy by 2026.
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
While this program represented the largest intergovernmental transfer of multipurpose funds in over 40 years, one-time funds discourage elected officials from making investments that will need to be sustained beyond the program’s 2026 expiration date. This precludes rebuilding the decimated public health workforce.
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