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Dec 24, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Howard Young
US Congress on December 20, 2024 passed a last-minute temporary government funding bill that keeps the government open for three months. As part of this package, a number of existing telehealth flexibilities were also extended to March 31, 2025.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
morganlewis.com | Michael Abernathy |Stephen Altieri |Louis W. Beardell |Jacqueline R. Berman |Olga Berson |Christopher J. Betti | +23 more
NEW YORK, September 24, 2024: Morgan Lewis has received 13 practice rankings and 27 individual lawyer recognitions in the 2024 edition of Legal Media Group’s (LMG) LMG Life Sciences guide, an annual guide that honors law firms and lawyers for outstanding work in life sciences.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Albert W. Shay |Howard Young
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued its Calendar Year 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule, scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on July 31, 2024. In response to industry concerns from previous comment periods, the proposed rule adds further revisions to the so-called 60-Day Rule, including formally establishing a six-month period to investigate and calculate overpayments.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
morganlewis.com | Albert W. Shay |Howard Young
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued its Calendar Year 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule, scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on July 31, 2024. In response to industry concerns from previous comment periods, the proposed rule adds further revisions to the so-called 60-Day Rule, including formally establishing a six-month period to investigate and calculate overpayments.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Howard Young
The old adage—March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb—didn’t quite hold true for the hospice sector, which experienced a late-month flurry of activity. The government gave the hospice sector a lot to consider, from MedPAC’s suggested freeze on hospice rates to CMS’s 2025 Proposed Hospice Rule (public comments due May 28, 2024) that, if finalized as is, would include a 2.6% payment bump.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
morganlewis.com | Howard Young
The old adage—March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb—didn’t quite hold true for the hospice sector, which experienced a late-month flurry of activity. The government gave the hospice sector a lot to consider, from MedPAC’s suggested freeze on hospice rates to CMS’s 2025 Proposed Hospice Rule (public comments due May 28, 2024) that, if finalized as is, would include a 2.6% payment bump.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | B. Scott McBride |Sydney Swanson |Howard Young
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) posted on October 25, 2023 Advisory Opinion No. 23-08, in which OIG rejected a proposed arrangement from a cochlear implant device manufacturer (the requestor) that would provide a free hearing aid to certain qualified patients who received a cochlear implant.
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
morganlewis.com | Howard Young |Jacob Harper |Kathleen McDermott |David Yates
The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has implemented a final rule, effective November 13, 2023, designed to enhance the oversight of hospice providers throughout the United States and increase regulatory scrutiny of poor-performing hospices through the Hospice Special Focus Program (SFP). In recent months, CMS has expanded its focus on addressing the significant increase in the number of hospices enrolling in the Medicare program and related program integrity risks.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
morganlewis.com | Howard Young |B. Scott McBride |Sydney Swanson
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) posted on October 25, 2023 Advisory Opinion No. 23-08, in which OIG rejected a proposed arrangement from a cochlear implant device manufacturer (the requestor) that would provide a free hearing aid to certain qualified patients who received a cochlear implant.
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Howard Young
For over a year, the hospice industry, legislators, and state and federal regulators have expressed concerns about the fast growth and potentially unscrupulous activities of new hospices in several states in particular. Those concerns were covered in the press and congressional hearings, with the California legislature leading the way to clamp down on abusive hospice practices with a hospice license moratorium enacted in 2022.
