Weekly Health Care Real Estate Briefing – June 13, 2022
Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. A number of stories involving hospitals and health care...
View ArticleCMS Issues First Penalties for Non-Compliance with Hospital Price...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently imposed financial penalties for the first time against two hospitals for failure to comply with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule...
View ArticleSupreme Court Overturns 340B Payment Reductions
On June 15, in American Hospital Association v. Becerra, the Supreme Court ruled the payment cuts made by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (“HHS”) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
View ArticleFTC Launches Inquiry into Pharmacy Benefit Managers: Is This Time Different?
On June 7, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced that it would launch an inquiry into the business practices of the nation’s six largest pharmacy benefit managers (“PBMs”). The inquiry...
View ArticleWeekly Health Care Real Estate Briefing: States Using Medicaid Programs to...
Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. 1. Is housing health care and should Medicaid pay the rent?...
View ArticleThree Big Health Care Employment and Labor Legal Issues to Watch
We know the major personnel issues challenging our friends in the health care industry: labor shortages; competitive wages; and rising costs. But what employment and labor legal issues do (or may)...
View ArticleWisconsin Courts Cannot Compel Providers to Give Treatments Below the...
On May 25, 2022, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals reversed the circuit court’s ruling which granted an injunction compelling a Wisconsin health system to administer Ivermectin to a patient with COVID-19....
View ArticleHome Health PPS Proposed Rule for CY2023: More Bad News for the Home Health...
On Friday, June 17, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) posted a pre-publication copy of the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2023 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update...
View ArticleWeekly Health Care Real Estate Briefing: Hospitals Building Affordable...
Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. 1. Last week, we highlighted Arizona’s spending to house...
View ArticleDobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health: What It Does and What Health Care Providers...
The Supreme Court of the United States has issued its highly anticipated decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. The decision holds that there is no federal constitutional right to an abortion and...
View ArticleCMS Proposes Revised Process for Group Practices Self-Disclosing Stark Law...
On June 9, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a notice seeking public comment on its plan to revise the way information is collected under its voluntary...
View ArticleThe Dobbs Decision on Abortion Brings Employee Speech and Employee Benefits...
Abortion is no longer a federal constitutional right. As a result of the United States Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, states may regulate abortion in a manner consistent...
View ArticleNursing Home Update: CMS Updates and Expands Surveyor Guidance for Nursing...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has given surveyors new rules and updates to allow surveyors to add extra attention and increase oversight in nursing homes regarding the...
View ArticleHealth Provider News – July 1, 2022
NATIONAL 90% of Skilled Nursing Pros Say Reimbursement Will Suffer Due to Labor Issues 16 healthcare responses to Roe v. Wade reversal Biden officials to keep private the names of hospitals where...
View ArticleReminder: Transparency in Coverage Rule Takes Effect July 1, 2022
Beginning July 1, 2022, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury (the “Departments”) will begin enforcing the Transparency in Coverage Final Rule (“TiC Rule”) broadly requiring...
View ArticleSupreme Court Decision Bodes Well for Hospitals Appealing DSH SSI Issue
In Becerra v. Empire Health Found., the Supreme Court upheld CMS’s decision to include Medicare exhaust and secondary payor days in the Medicare Fraction of the Disproportionate Share Hospital (“DSH”)...
View ArticleWeekly Health Care Real Estate Briefing: CMS Creates New Hospital Provider...
Last week, CMS announced a new hospital provider status for rural hospitals. A significant number of rural hospitals have closed over the past decade. CMS created the new provider status in an effort...
View ArticleCMS Proposes Regulations for Rural Emergency Hospital CoPs and CAH Updates;...
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “Act”) signed into law on December 27, 2020, created a new Medicare provider type called a Rural Emergency Hospital (“REH”). Critical access hospitals...
View ArticleHealth Provider News – July 8, 2022
NATIONAL CMS is creating a new provider type, Rural Emergency Hospitals CMS issues updated nursing home staffing compliance guidelines CMS proposal details how to become new rural hospital designation...
View ArticleWeekly Health Care Real Estate Briefing: CMS Proposes New Post-Acute Payment...
Last week, CMS issued a proposal that would change how post-acute providers are paid for their services. The proposal drew negative feedback from trade associations. A number of prominent physician...
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