Health Care Law News and Insights

On December 2, 2020, CMS released final regulations ("Final Rule") that permit increased expansion opportunities for certain physician-owned hospitals ("POHs"). CMS's goal with these modifications was to remove unnecessary regulatory restrictions on high Medicaid physician-owned facilities. Background Under the Affordable Care Act's amendments to the Stark Law, a POH cannot expand the...

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Here at the Medicaid and the Law Blog, we spent part of our holiday break reading through the most recent COVID-19 relief package that was finally signed into law by President Trump  amid a not-insignificant amount of drama.  It was quite an undertaking; the new law is over 5,000 double-spaced pages. ...

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As part of the "CY 2021 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System Final Rule" (the "Final Rule") published on December 2, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") finalized policies designed to overhaul the methodology used to calculate the Overall Hospital Quality...

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