President Trump takes administrative action undermining the ACA
Late last week, President Trump brought forward executive action that threatens to undermine coverage provided under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The first was an...
Senate Special Committee on Aging holds hearing on disaster preparedness
In the wake of nursing home resident deaths following Hurricane Irma and pictures of Houston-area assisted living residents who were photographed sitting in waist-deep...
HIPAA and patient privacy in situations of crisis
In light of the recent mass shooting in Las Vegas, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued reminder information about instances in...
New Medicare cards are coming!
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will soon be issuing every Medicare beneficiary a new Medicare card. The new card will not include...
Legislative priorities post ACA
With the decision to abandon further efforts to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Congress is shifting their attention to...
HHS releases strategic plan draft; seeks input
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has provided a draft of its FY 2018 – 2022 Strategic Plan for comments. The draft is a...
CHRONIC Care Act and RAISE Family Caregivers Act pass the Senate
While the majority of people were watching the updates on the Graham-Cassidy bill last week, the Senate was voting on other bills of interest...
CMS issues revised S-10 reporting instructions
CMS issued new and revised instructions for charity care and bad debt data reported by hospitals on worksheet S-10 of the Medicare Cost Report....
CMS seeks comments on new direction for CMMI
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a request for information seeking stakeholder input on potential new models that could be...
Senate vote on Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson abandoned
The Senate will not vote this week on the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson proposal to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the proposal’s sponsors...
