HHS Announces Marketplace Special Enrollment Period for COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
President Biden issued an Executive Order on January 28 requiring the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare...
United States Department of Labor Issues Emergency Temporary Standard to Protect Workers from Coronavirus
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently announced a new emergency temporary standard (ETS) to protect more than 84...
CMS Seeks Additional Input on Reducing Administrative Burden
This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)​ requested new and innovative ideas for reducing administrative burdens for health care providers and...
Jan. 1 MACs to Accept Appropriate Use Claims Modifiers
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC) should begin, effective Jan. 1, 2020, accepting the Healthcare...
CMS Seeks Feedback on Scope of Practice Laws
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking additional input and recommendations​ regarding elimination of specific Medicare regulations that require more stringent...
Trump Administration Proposes to Expand Telehealth Benefits
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing changes to expand telehealth permanently, consistent with the Executive Order on Improving Rural and...
US Health and Human Services is stepping up their cybersecurity assistance
During the last few days of 2018 The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a 4 volume publication which lists...
Update to Posting of Hospital Charges
In a Jan. 17 tweet by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Administrator Seema Verma, asking for the Twitterverse to "help us make...
AHA Issues Special Bulletins
This week the American Hospital Association (AHA) shared information on upcoming CMS calls. CMS will be hosting calls this week for hospitals, health systems...
CMS Releases FFY 2021 IPPS Proposed Rule
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its federal fiscal year (FFY) 2021 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed rule. In...
