By Jeff Overley, Law360 Law360, New York (December 24, 2015, 8:37 PM ET) — Major regulatory initiatives in 2016 will profoundly affect False Claims Act liability, medicare r...
http://directprimarycarejournal.com/2016/01/08/policy-health-care-regulation-to-watch-in-2016/
Section 1557 [https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2013-title42/pdf/USCODE-2013-title42-chap157-subchapVI-sec18116.pdf] is the primary nondiscrimination provision of the Patie...
Comparing Senator Bernie Sanders with reality television star Donald Trump has become something of an election-watching pastime. The two have been noted for their similarities...
https://newrepublic.com/article/127119/keep-comparing-trump-sanders
In their recently proposed rule [https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2015-29884.pdf], the Centers for medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) created a...
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2016/01/06/cms-standardized-plan-option-could-reduce-discrimination/
For physicians and their professional associations, 2016 will be unlike any other congressional advocacy year in recent memory. Why? Because when Congress last April repea...
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AcpAdvocateBlog/~3/vbDdRO7FrNw/will-2016-be-happy-new-year-for.html
Accountable care organizations (ACOs), once compared to mythical creatures [http://www.ajmc.com/journals/issue/2015/2015-vol21-n7/no-longer-a-unicorn-improving-health-through-...
IMPLEMENTING health REFORM (JANUARY 6 UPDATE). On January 6, 2015, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report [http://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region2/2140202...
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2016/01/05/cbo-updates-the-estimated-of-the-budget-reconciliation-act/
On August 6, 2015, the Centers for medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule [https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/08/06/2015-19033/medicare-program-fy-2...
Friends- Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and your 2016 is off to a great start! The year upon us promises to be an exciting one and I’m looking fo...
Year end is a time of reflection, and a time to plan for what’s to come. Here at PCG, our health team has much to be proud of in 2015: we helped more than 40 states dev...
http://www.publicconsultinggroup.com/news/post/2015/12/31/PCGs-Top-Trends-to-look-for-in-2016.aspx
The medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) requires CMS to develop quality measures that will apply to medicare payments to physicians when new Merit-bas...
On December 17, 2015, the Senate approved S. 2261, the Rural ACO Provider Equity Act of 2015. This legislation would modify how beneficiaries are assigned under the medicare s...