Health Care Law News and Insights

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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Although as of yet the data has not been peer reviewed, or subjected to the necessary  administrative and scientific scrutiny, there has been considerable recent good news  regarding the efficacy of two COVID-19 vaccines, being developed by  Pfizer and Moderna,  respectively. It is now more likely than ever that within a few months the largest mass vaccination...

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