FDA Authorizes Additional mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines for Moderately to Severely Immunocompromised People
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued Emergency Use Authorizations (EUA) for additional doses of both the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine and the...
CDC Strengthens COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendations for Pregnant Women
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is advising people who are pregnant, breastfeeding or contemplating pregnancy to get vaccinated against COVID-19, citing...
CMS Issues Hospital IPPS and LTCH PPS Final Rules for FY 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)Â issued a final rule that increases Medicare inpatient prospective payment system rates by a net 2.5% in...
CDC Issues New Masking Guidance for Vaccinated Individuals
The United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) has updated guidance for fully vaccinated people given new evidence on the B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant currently...
HHS and DOH Issue Guidance on “Long Covid” Disability Rights
As we commemorate the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the...
Hospital Price Transparency Penalty Increase in Proposed CMS Rule
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that includes updates to the hospital price transparency rule. To...
CMS Proposed OPPS Rule
On July 19 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule for 2022, regarding the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS)....
Public Health Emergency Extended 90 Days
On July 19, 2021, Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, renewed the determination that a public health emergency (phe) exists due to...
Administration Issues Surprise Billing Protections Interim Rule
On July 1, the Biden Administration introduced an interim final rule instructing mediators to consider median in-network rates when determining how much an insurer...
CMS Issues New Visitation Guidance for Hospitals
​On June 26, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released updated guidance on visitation for patients testing negative for COVID-19. Because hospital patients...
