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CMS Proposes Major Changes to Medicare Outpatient Payments
By Morgan Lewis
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 7, 2026, issued a proposed rule (CMS-1850-P) for calendar year (CY) 2027 that would overhaul payment policies for hospital outpatient…
Health Law
CMS Issues FY 2026 Hospital IPPS Proposed Rule and LTCH PPS Proposed Rule
By Eunice Lalanne, Sarah Cheney
On April 11, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the proposed rule for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 update to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS)…
Healthcare Law Insights
OIG Announces 2025 Work Plan Review: What Clinical Laboratories Need to Know About Medicare Payments for Diagnostic Lab Tests
By Brian G. Flood, Kimberly Chew
In June 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced a new item in its Work Plan: “Medicare Payments for Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory…
Take Stock: Federal Policy Watch
Washington Healthcare Update | June 5, 2023
By Stephanie A. Kennan, Gina Sherick, Gabriel Wiedenhoever
This Week in Washington: Debt-ceiling agreement passes, House Energy and Commerce Committee reports out legislation on site-neutral Medicare payments for certain drugs Congress House House Energy and Commerce Committee Holds Markup…
Health Industry Washington Watch
Health Provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023: Part 1 Medicare Payments
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (P.L. 117-328) (referred to hereafter as 2023 CAA) runs more than 1,600 pages long in the official PDF version, so you would be excused if…
Healthcare Perspectives
A Primer on Medicare Graduate Medical Education Payments
By James A. Robertson, John W. Kaveney, Paul L. Croce
In fiscal year 2020, Medicare paid over $16 billion to hospitals throughout the United States in the form of Graduate Medical Education (GME) payments. This Client Alert by Greenbaum attorneys…
Health Law Diagnosis
CMS Issues Final Rules Concerning the 2023 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Rates and Physician Fee Schedule
By Robinson+Cole's Health Law Group
On November 1, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued final rules concerning the 2023 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) payment rates and 2023 Medicare Physician…
Medicaid and the Law
HHS Ordered to Correct Medicare Payments to 340B Hospitals for Remainder of 2022
We have noted before the link between the Medicaid prescription drug rebate program and the 340B program. As we wrote in an earlier Client Alert, in June 2022, the U.S. Supreme…
Health Law
$900 Million Increase in Medicare Part A Payments One of Many Medicare Changes for SNFs in FY 2023
By Michelle Chipetine, Paul Mourning
On July 29, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule that updates Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and enacts…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Budgeting for Medicare Increases?
By rmorgan
Yesterday the New York Times ran what I consider to be an important article about Medicare costs to beneficiaries. How to Cope With Medicare’s Rising Costs focuses on how beneficiaries…