Hall Render’s This Week in Washington – March 2, 2018
Focus in Washington Shifts to the Opioid Crisis The federal response to the opioid epidemic is accelerating as both the Trump administration and members of Congress announced new steps this week to...
View ArticleAre Employers Obligated to Provide Light Duty to Pregnant Employees? Recent...
More and more, we receive questions from clients about their obligations to accommodate pregnant employees in the workplace. Regardless of whether or not the pregnant employee is disabled as defined by...
View ArticleCMS Guidance May Prevent Inpatient Rehabilitation Claim Denials
On February 23, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued guidance that may result in fewer denials of claims made by Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (“IRFs”) for...
View ArticleDOJ Announces New Prescription Interdiction & Litigation Task Force to Combat...
On Tuesday, February 27, 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Prescription Interdiction & Litigation (“PIL”) Task Force in an...
View ArticleUSCIS Imposes Stricter Requirements for Third-Party Worksite H-1B Petitions
On February 22, 2018, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) published a policy memorandum clarifying existing regulatory requirements relating to H-1B petitions filed for workers who will...
View ArticleOverreaching Edits Deactivated for CAH Method II Claims
After informal communications with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) Central Office, it appears that edits that impact Critical Access Hospital (“CAH”) Method II claims have been...
View ArticleFedHealthIT.com: DOJ Announces New Prescription Interdiction & Litigation...
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View ArticleHealth Provider News – March 9, 2018
NATIONAL No-frills micro hospitals with as few as 8 rooms emerge as a new way to cut health-care costs Doctors can now call Uber for patients, ditching taxi vouchers Ocular Telehealth Battle Heats Up...
View ArticleHall Render’s This Week in Washington – March 9, 2018
Azar Pushes Value-Based Care Approach During the annual policy conference for the Federation of American Hospitals, Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Secretary Alex Azar laid out an agenda for a more...
View ArticleHR Technologist: Sexual Harassment in the Wake of #MeToo – Five Tips for Your...
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View ArticleCMS Issues Important Decision Memo Addressing Updates to National Coverage...
On February 15, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a long-awaited Final Decision Memo (the “Memo”) updating the National Coverage Determination for implantable...
View ArticleHealth Provider News – March 16, 2018
NATIONAL Google Unveils New Cloud Service for Health Care Nurse shortage: Healthcare organizations pull out all the stops to attract and retain experienced RNs More than 60% of healthcare orgs saw...
View ArticleHall Render’s This Week in Washington – March 16, 2018
Senate Committee Hearing Assesses 340B Program The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (“HELP”) Committee held a hearing this week to examine the 340B drug discount program as some...
View ArticleThe Wave of PBM and Insurer Integration Continues as Cigna and Express...
Last week, Cigna Corporation, the fifth largest health insurer in the country, and Express Scripts, the nation’s largest stand-alone pharmacy benefit manager (“PBM”), issued a statement outlining...
View ArticleRevCycle Intelligence: CMS Guidance to Lower Claim Denials for Inpatient...
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View ArticleD CEO Healthcare: Microhospitals Have Become Part of the North Texas...
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View ArticleLaw 360: Cigna, Express Scripts To Face Tough Antitrust Review
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View ArticleHealth Provider News – March 23, 2018
NATIONAL Tech’s Next Big Wave: Big Data Meets Biology Hospitals Acquired 5K Independent Practices from 2015 to 2016 CMS promises more APM’s, continued flexibility, better alignment of reporting tracks...
View ArticleHall Render’s This Week in Washington – March 23, 2018
Major Spending Bill Passes Congress Congress passed a major $1.3 trillion spending bill this week, which keeps the government funded through September. The bill passed the House 256-167 and the Senate...
View ArticleFinally, a Permanent Fix to the Therapy Caps
We recently released an alert about the expiration of exception processes for the Medicare therapy caps as of January 1, 2018. Since that article, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 was signed into law...
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