Victoria Wallace

Aug 14, 2024 | lexology.com | Stuart Langbein |Beth Roberts |James Huang |Victoria Wallace |Rianna Modi

On August 7, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a Final Notice for Transitional Coverage for Emerging Technologies (TCET) (Final Notice). The long-anticipated Final Notice on the TCET pathway finalizes a new mechanism to provide Medicare patients with more timely and predictable access to certain Food and Drug Administration (FDA) designated Breakthrough devices.

May 30, 2024 | umc.org | Victoria Wallace

Dionisio Deista Alejandro was the first native Filipino elected a bishop of the Methodist Church in the Philippines. In his lifetime of ministry, he served as an editor and educator and was well known as a gifted evangelist and leader. The first American Methodist missionaries arrived in Manila in 1898. As a young boy, Dionisio became an interpreter for American missionaries in his hometown of San Isidro, Nueva Ecija. His contact with the missionaries ignited an early passion for the church.

May 30, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Victoria Wallace

Addressing concerns that the Medicare program, which was established in the 1960’s, has struggled with appropriately covering and paying for innovative AI technology, Victoria Wallace, Counsel in Hogan Lovells’ health care regulatory practice, moderated a panel including industry representatives from Mount Sinai Hospital, the American College of Cardiology, and Anitra Graves, MD, contract medical director at First Coast Service Options, Inc., a Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC).

Jan 22, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Ken Choe |Beth Roberts |Victoria Wallace

[co-author: Xochitl Halaby]The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) along with the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury (“the Departments”) announced on January 17, 2024, that they have reopened the public comment period for the “Federal Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) Operations” proposed rules (“IDR Operations Proposed Rules”) (88 Fed. Reg. 75,744 (Nov. 3, 2023)) which relate to improving the Federal IDR process of the No Surprises Act.

Jan 20, 2024 | lexology.com | Beth Roberts |Ken Choe |Victoria Wallace |Xochitl Halaby

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) along with the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury (“the Departments”) announced on January 17, 2024, that they have reopened the public comment period for the “Federal Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) Operations” proposed rules (“IDR Operations Proposed Rules”) (88 Fed. Reg. 75,744 (Nov. 3, 2023)) which relate to improving the Federal IDR process of the No Surprises Act.