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This week in Washington: President Biden acknowledges that the Build Back Better Act might not pass Congress this year.

Renee Kinder The new year is upon us.  What new areas of regulatory change will your teams monitor in 2022? CPT? Parity? Survey trends? Quality? Yes,

Upcoming Hearings/Markups - December 8 - House Agriculture Committee, Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations Subcommittee Hearing: “Review of USDA...

Congress - House - House Passes Reconciliation Package - On Nov. 19, the House passed the $1.7 trillion reconciliation package with a vote of...

Thursday, July 22, 2021 On 19 July 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2022 Outpatient Prospective Payment System/Ambulatory Surgery Center Payment System proposed rule (OPPS Proposed Rule), 1 which includes a proposal to significantly increase penalties on hospitals for noncompliance with CMS’s price transparency rules (collectively, the Hospital Price Transparency Rule or the Rule). Citing President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competit...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Non-surgical extended duration therapeutic services (NSEDTS) are services which have a significant monitoring component that can: extend for a lengthy period of time, are not surgical, and typically have a low risk of complications after the assessment at the beginning of the service. In 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) established the minimum NSEDTS level of supervision as “direct supervision during the init...