federal register • 27 november 2020

CMS has published in the federal register:

A Final Rule with comment period on the Most Favored Nation Model
A Notice of Agency Information Collection Activities:
1. State Medicaid HIT Plan, Planning Advance Planning Document, and Implementation Advance Planning Document for Section 4201 of the Recovery Act
2. Final Peer Review Organizations Sanction Regulations
A Notice of Agency Information Collection Activities:
1. Transcatheter Valve Therapy (TVT) Registry
2. Information Collection for Machine Readable Data for Provider Network and Prescription Formulary Content for FFM QHPs
3. Home Office Cost Statement

super-majority

What was the purpose of the three-fifths requirement?
Where did that requirement come from?

What was the purpose of the two-thirds requirement?
Where did that requirement come from?

What was the purpose of the 2-votes-per-state provision?
Where did it come from?

What was the purpose of the electoral college?
Where did it come from?

These really are questions.

Not rhetorical questions.

Answers to follow.

CMS has published in the federal register:

A Final Rule for the Medicaid Program: Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Managed Care

CMS has filed for publication in the federal register:

A Final Rule for the Medicare Program: End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System, Payment for Renal Dialysis Services Furnished to Individuals with Acute Kidney Injury, and End-Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program

CMS, EBSA, IRS, and DHHS have published in the federal register:

An Interim Final Rule with request for comments: Additional Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

CMS has published in the federal register:

A Final Rule for the Medicare and Medicaid Programs: CY 2021 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update, Home Health Quality Reporting Program Requirements, and Home Infusion Therapy Services and Supplier Enrollment Requirements; and Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model Data Submission Requirements
A Proposed Rule for the Medicare Program: Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies Policy Issues and Level II of the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System
A Notice of Agency Information Collection Activities: CLIA Collection of Information Requirements Related to SARS-CoV-2 Test Results Reporting
A Notice of Agency Information Collection Activities: Medicare Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS) Competitive Bidding Program—Contracting Forms
A Notice for the Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Quarterly Listing of Program Issuances; July through September 2020

DHHS has published in the federal register:

An Interim Final Rule: Information Blocking and the ONC Health IT Certification Program: Extension of Compliance Dates and Timeframes in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

CMS has published in the federal register:

A Proposed Rule for the Basic Health Program: Federal Funding Methodology for Program Year 2022