Reed Smith LLP | USA | 31 Oct 2016
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule on September 28, 2016, comprehensively updating and extensively revising the…
Reed Smith LLP | USA | 26 Oct 2016
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued its first…
Reed Smith LLP | USA | 29 Sep 2016
On September 28, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a highly-anticipated final rule to strengthen requirements that…
Reed Smith LLP | USA | 2 Aug 2016
CMS has published its final rule to update Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) PPS rates and policies for FY 2017. CMS projects that the final…
Reed Smith LLP | USA | 30 Jun 2016
Today the Department of Justice published an interim final rule with request for comments that applies an inflation adjustment to civil monetary…
Reed Smith LLP | USA | 17 Nov 2015
On November 16, 2015, CMS released its final rule to establish a Medicare Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model that will test whether…
Reed Smith LLP | USA | 11 Nov 2015
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (H.R. 1314), signed into law by President Obama November 2, 2015, will increase the civil monetary penalties (CMPs)…
Reed Smith LLP | USA | 20 Oct 2015
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released a “Policy Reminder” on how “information blocking”— defined by HHS as knowingly and…
Reed Smith LLP | USA | 24 Sep 2015
On July 16, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a proposed rule comprehensively updating and extensively revising…
Reed Smith LLP | USA | 19 Aug 2014
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the final FY 2015 Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) prospective payment system…