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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ interim final rule changing the eligibility criteria for Health Insurance Marketplace special enrollment periods strikes “the appropriate balance between ensuring consumer access to coverage and protecting plans from potential SEP abuses…
About 200 physician practices, including hospital-based practices, and 17 commercial insurers will begin participating July 1 in an alternative payment model for fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries undergoing chemotherapy, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today.
The Food and Drug Administration has created an Oncology Center of Excellence to coordinate and speed regulatory review of cancer drugs, biologics and medical devices as part of the administration’s Cancer Moonshot initiative.
The AHA’s American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration this month welcomed as its new executive director Catherine Carruth, a certified association executive with more than 10 years of experience at the AHA. “We are delighted to have Catherine join the ASHHRA team,…
The Department of Health & Human Services today released a proposed rule that would make changes to the procedures for Administrative Law Judge appeals of payment and coverage determinations for items and services provided to Medicare beneficiaries, in addition to other Medicare appeals.
Reducing Medicare reimbursement to critical access hospitals would have “a significant and detrimental impact” not only on these hospitals, but on their patients and communities, AHA told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today.
The Senate Finance Committee today held a hearing on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed payment demonstration for Medicare Part B drugs. Patrick Conway, M.D., CMS acting principal deputy administrator, said the agency is reviewing comments on the proposed rule…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response highlights “best and promising” hospital cybersecurity practices in its latest TRACIE newsletter and webinar on the issue.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response will begin developing a Zika virus vaccine at its Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing in Baltimore, the agency announced yesterday.
Hospitals, critical access hospitals and eligible professionals who did not achieve meaningful use in the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program for the 2015 reporting period can apply through July 1 for a hardship exception from the 2017 payment adjustment. CAHs that have already…