Advisory

This Regulatory Advisory summarizes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ fiscal year 2022 final rules and policy changes for the skilled nursing facility (SNF) prospective payment system.
At Issue The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Aug. 2 issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) PPS final rule for fiscal year (FY) 2022.
This Legal Advisory provides in-depth analysis of the DOJ’s and FTC’s policies and insights on how the hospital sector should respond and reduce their risks of prosecutions of no-poach agreements.
This Regulatory Advisory is a detailed summary of CMS’ Medicare physician fee schedule proposed rule for CY 2022.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 29 issued its final rule for the inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) prospective payment system (PPS) for fiscal year (FY) 2022.
At a Glance The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 19 released its calendar year (CY) 2022 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS)/ambulatory surgical center (ASC) proposed rule.
The AHA Board of Trustees today approved a policy statement that strongly urges the vaccination of all health care personnel. The AHA also supports hospitals and health systems that adopt mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies, with local factors and circumstances shaping whether and how mandatory…
On June 28, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its calendar year (CY) 2022 proposed rule for the home health (HH) prospective payment system (PPS). Comments on the proposed rule are due to CMS by Aug. 27.
The departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury, along with the Office of Personnel Management, July 1 released “Part 1” of regulations implementing the No Surprises Act.
Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability — known as PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-34527) — in the Windows Print spooler service.