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The Biden administration recently released three final rules that provide for an aggregate $1.19 billion increase in Medicare payments in fiscal year 2023 for hospices, rehabilitation...

This Week in Washington: The Senate waits to see if budget reconciliation agreement has enough votes to pass.

Rural emergency hospitals (REHs) are a new Medicare provider type that will allow Medicare to pay for emergency department and other outpatient hospital services in rural areas...

Key Points - The Supreme Court invalidated 2018 and 2019 cuts to Medicare reimbursement rates for hospital outpatient drugs acquired through the 340B Drug Pricing...

Providers worry they might not have enough time to comply with a mandatory flu vaccine reporting measure for workers as proposed by CMS.

This Week in Washington: President Biden Invokes Defense Production Act to Increase Supply of Infant Formula...

This Week in Washington: Senate Fails to Advance Bill Protecting Abortion Rights After Supreme Court Draft Opinion Leak...

Agency: " Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services." This final rule finalizes certain 2021 and 2022 Star Ratings provisions that were included in two interim final rules with comment period that CMS issued on April 6, 2020, and September 2, 2020; other policies from those interim final rules will be addressed in other...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS published databases summarizing Medicare-enrolled hospitals and skilled nursing facilities SNF ownership changes. Databases currently include information from 2016 to 2022, but will be updated, released quarterly.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published detailed databases summarizing changes of ownership of Medicare-enrolled hospitals and skilled nursing facilities...