Hall Render

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) finalized significant updates to the Hospital Price Transparency regulation for the first time since the rule took effect on January 1, 2021. All hospital MRFs must now comply with a CMS template, a markedly more prescriptive approach than previously allowed.

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Hospitals Compliance Patient Advocacy Medicare 52

The Digital Health Corner

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare.

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Public Health Health Services Administration Patient Advocacy Governance 68

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Randall Shafer, EVP and Head of Hospital Business at Firstsource. The impact is not limited to patients. Today, patients are the third-largest payer – behind Medicaid and Medicare. But the patient’s financial experience is often challenging, even for those with insurance. Today, patients face a double whammy.

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Hospitals Patient Advocacy Medicaid Medicaid 52

C&M Health Law

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The EO comes two months after the president signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) which promises to lower the cost of prescription drugs for many Medicare beneficiaries. This is not the first time that the White House will try to leverage CMMI’s testing authority to create models that would lower drug costs in Medicare.

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