Category Archives: regulations

federal register • 10 november 2014

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CMS has published in the federal register:

  • A Final Rule for the Medicare and Medicaid Programs:
    1. Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs;
    2. Physician-Owned Hospitals: Data Sources for Expansion Exception;
    3. Physician Certification of Inpatient Hospital Services;
    4. Medicare Advantage Organizations and Part D Sponsors: CMS-Identified Overpayments Associated with Submitted Payment Data
  • A Notice requesting nominations to the Medicare Programs; Medicare Evidence Development Coverage Advisory Committee

federal register • 06 november 2014

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CMS has published in the federal register:

  • A Final Rule for the Medicare Program:
    1. Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update, CY 2015;
    2. Home Health Quality Reporting Requirements; and
    3. Survey and Enforcement Requirements for Home Health Agencies
  • A Final Rule for the Medicare Program:
    1. End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System,
    2. Quality Incentive Program, and
    3. Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies

federal register • 31 october 2014

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CMS has published in the federal register:

  • A Notice of Requests for Exemption to the Prohibition on Expansion of Facility Capacity under the Hospital Ownership and Rural Provider Exceptions to the Physician Self-Referral Prohibition
  • A Notice of the re-designation of a System of Records under the Privacy Act for the Chronic Condition Data Repository (CCDR)

CMS has filed for public inspection prior to publication in the federal register:

  • On November 13, 2014, a Final Rule on Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule, Revisions; etc.
  • On November 10, 2014, a Final Rule on Physician-Owned Hospitals; Part D Sponsors: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs, etc.
  • On November 6, 2014, a Final Rule on End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System, Quality Incentive Program, and Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies

federal register • 03 October 2014

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CMS has published in the federal register:

  • A Correction to a Final Rule for the Medicare Program:
    1. Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Fiscal Year 2015 Rates;
    2. Quality Reporting Requirements for Specific Providers;
    3. Reasonable Compensation Equivalents for Physician Services in Excluded Hospitals and Certain Teaching Hospitals;
    4. Provider Administrative Appeals and Judicial Review;
    5. Enforcement Provisions for Organ Transplant Centers; and
    6. Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program
  • A Notice of Agency Information Collection Activities: Prior Authorization Form for Beneficiaries Enrolled in Hospice:
  • A Notice of Agency Information Collection Activities:
    1. Medicare Advantage and 1876 Cost Plan Expansion Application
    2. Letter Requesting Waiver of Medicare/Medicaid Enrollment Application Fee; Submission of Fingerprints; Submission of Medicaid Identifying Information; Medicaid Site Visit and Rescreening
    3. Public Health Agency/Registry Readiness to Support Meaningful Use

The Office of Inspector General of the DHHS has published in the federal register:

  • A proposed rule on Safe Harbors Under the Anti-Kickback Statute, and Civil Monetary Penalty Rules Regarding Beneficiary Inducements and Gainsharing