MRO Compliance

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2025 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule brings notable updates to the Quality Payment Program (QPP), which will impact eligible clinicians, groups, virtual groups, subgroups, and APM entities. CMS’s 2025 Final Rule introduces both challenges and opportunities.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2025

EHR and health IT vendors have a lot to consider as they plot out their development roadmaps and decide whether to build compliance solutions in-house or work with a trusted partner. Deadlines : The CMS published the final rule on June 17, 2024, and it goes into effect on January 1, 2028. Are You Prepared?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized new standards for electronic prescribing on June 13, concluding a complicated, 18-month regulatory process that came in fits and starts and went by without attracting much industry scrutiny. This article is the fourth in the Healthcare Regulatory Talk series.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 6, 2025

LDTs are subjected to robust testing to ensure they are accurate and reliable before they are used for diagnostic purposes, and laboratories were already regulated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA).

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Matt Kinley

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Other health facilities will start at $21 per hour in 2024, reaching $25 per hour by 2027 for community clinics and by 2028 for other facilities. Facilities with a large percentage of Medicare and Medicaid patients, rural independent hospitals, and small county facilities will start at $18 per hour in 2024, with a 3.5%

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Health Care Law Brief

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Waiver Amendment was approved on January 9, 2024, by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) under Section 1115(a) of the Social Security Act and will expire on March 31, 2027. The goal is for these Enhanced Services to be a covered benefit included in the MMCO premium starting in State Fiscal Year 2028.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A major justification for President Biden’s tax hike proposal is to shore up the tenuous finances of Medicare whose trust fund is forecasted to be depleted by 2028. Historically, it is the most prolific driver of family bankruptcy, and now it is on its way to bankrupting our country collectively.

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