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Health Industry Washington Watch
CMS Adopts 2013 Medicare Home Health PPS Rates, Update to Hospice Quality Program
Medicare home health rates will be largely unchanged in 2013 under a CMS final rule published November 8, 2012. Specifically, under the final rule, Medicare home health PPS (HH PPS)…
Health Industry Washington Watch
Obama Re-election Sets Stage for Full ACA Implementation
True to predictions that HHS regulatory activities to implement the ACA would accelerate after last week’s national elections, CMS has sent several ACA implementation rules to the Office of Management…
Health Industry Washington Watch
CMS Adopts Face-to-Face Encounter Requirement for Medicare DME Orders
As part of CMS’s Medicare physician fee schedule rule, CMS is implementing an ACA provision requiring a face-to-face encounter as a condition of Medicare payment for certain DME items. CMS has…
Health Industry Washington Watch
Meeting on ACA Medical Diagnostic Equipment Access Standards (Dec. 3-4)
The Medical Diagnostic Equipment Accessibility Standards Advisory Committee will hold a meeting on December 3-4, 2012 to discuss its February 9, 2012 proposed rule on medical diagnostic equipment accessibility standards.
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Federal Courts Already Chipping Away at Contraception Mandate
The Hill - Healthwatch Blog: Federal court exempts Mich. company from contraception mandate, by Sam Baker:A federal judge in Michigan threw out one lawsuit against the Obama administration's contraception mandate…
Employment Discrimination Report
Compliance With the ACA Contraception Rule By A Catholic-Owned Company Preliminarily Enjoined
A second federal court has enjoined the application of the ACA’s (“Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”) rule that would have required a Catholic employer to provide employee health insurance…
Health Industry Washington Watch
CMS Calls on IRF, LTCH Quality Reporting (Oct. 18)
On October 18, 2012, CMS is hosting two provider calls on ACA requirements related to Medicare post-acute care quality reporting. The first call will concentrate on quality reporting for inpatient…
The Right Coast
The Flaws That Will Bring Down Obama s Health-Care Plan – Bloomberg
The debate over President Barack Obama s health-care law has taken another twist. Nowconservatives and libertarians are defending it, while theadministration tries to toss part of the legislation out. The…
Health Industry Washington Watch
HHS Report Details Savings from ACA Insurance Premium Standards
According to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) 2012 Annual Rate Review Report, an ACA provision requiring insurance companies to justify rate increases above a certain threshold has…
Health Law Prof Blog
More on Immigrants and the ACA
On September 5, I posted on immigrants and the Affordable Care Act, http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/healthlawprof_blog/2012/09/aca-and-legal-immigrants.html. Undocumented immigrants are given no rights under the Act. Yesterday's New York Times carried a story very relevant…