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CMS Issues Proposed Provider-Based Status Rules

On July 6, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") released the 2017 Outpatient Prospective Payment System ("OPPS") Proposed Rule (the "Proposed Rule"). The Proposed Rule explains how CMS plans to implement Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 ("Section 603"), which established a new site neutral payment policy for certain off-campus hospital outpatient departments.

Section 603 provides that, as of January 1, 2017, certain items and services provided by off-campus hospital outpatient departments will no longer be reimbursed under the more favorable OPPS, and will instead be paid under another "applicable payment system." Read More ›

Categories: Billing/Payment, Medicare/Medicaid, News & Events, Physicians, Providers

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Michigan’s Health Insurance Claims Assessment Act is Upheld Once Again

Michigan’s tax on paid health care claims is not preempted by ERISA, according to a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. On remand from the United States Supreme Court, the federal appellate court held that the Health Insurance Claims Assessment Act does not impermissibly interfere with the uniform administration of group health plans or impose additional burdens on self-insured plans and third-party administrators. Read More ›

Categories: 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, Insurance, News & Events, Tax

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OCR Begins Phase 2 Audit Program of Covered Entities and Business Associates

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently announced that it has begun Phase 2 of its HIPAA audit program. This audit phase will impact covered entities and their business associates. Read More ›

Categories: Compliance, HIPAA, Hospitals, Providers

Posted by: Mindi M. Johnson

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