COVID-19 Update: Healthcare provisions (Including Medicare GME Revisions) in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021

On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law the fourth round of COVID-19 emergency relief that passed both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (“Act”) includes approximately $900 billion in pandemic relief and is reportedly the longest bill (5,593 pages) to be passed in Congress’s history. … Continue reading

COVID-19 Update: Highly-Impacted and Rural Hospital Distribution Imminent

By Jeff Wurzburg (US) and Frances Morgan (US) on May 3, 2020 Posted in Coronavirus, General

On the evening of May 1, 2020, HHS announced that it will distribute an additional $22 billion in payments from the Provider Relief Fund to hospitals with high volumes of COVID-19 patients ($12 billion) and rural hospitals ($10 billion) in the coming days. Qualifying hospitals will receive funds via direct deposit and will likely be … Continue reading

CMS publishes 2020 IPPS and LTCH Proposed Rule

By Thomas Dowdell (US) on April 24, 2019 Posted in News from DC

On Tuesday, April 23, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule and Request for Information. The proposed rule is available here. A CMS Fact Sheet describing the final rule … Continue reading