Hall Render

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While this is a significant improvement over the original proposal, this increase is significantly less than inflation and fails to keep up with the home health industry’s rapidly increasing costs. Given the threat this rate cut posed to the industry, it was anticipated that there would be a much larger volume of comments to CMS than usual.

Medicare 40

Medicare Medicare Payment Systems Medicaid 40

Hall Render

JULY 14, 2023

CMS then addresses home health reimbursement in comparison to home health costs. After analyzing cost report data, CMS concludes that the CY 2022 National Standardized Episodic Payment paid home health agencies 45% more than their costs. CMS attributes this to a decline in costs due to a reduction in visits.

Medicare 52

Medicare Medicare Payment Systems Governance 52

Drug & Device Law

MAY 25, 2023

For several years, we have blogged about the controversy over whether the American Law Institute (“ALI”) should put its Restatement Third of Torts imprimatur on no-injury medical monitoring. Tentative Draft #2, at 30, lines 24-26 (that’s how ALI citations to intra-Institute documents are done). the City of Chicago , 181 N.E.3d

Informed Consent 59

Informed Consent Malpractice Governance 59