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CMS publishes CY 2019 changes to hospital outpatient prospective payment and ambulatory surgical center payment systems and quality reporting programs final rule

By Thomas Dowdell (US) on November 5, 2018 Posted in News from DC

On November 2, CMS published its CY 2019 hospital outpatient prospective payment and ambulatory surgical center payment systems and quality reporting programs final rule. In the final rule CMS implements its proposal to pay clinic visit services performed in excepted off-campus provider-based departments (PBDs) a Medicare Physician Fee Schedule – equivalent payment rate. These services … Continue reading

President signs into law 21st Century Cures Act

By Thomas Dowdell (US) on December 14, 2016 Posted in News from DC, Regulatory

On December 13th, President Obama signed into law the 21st Century Cures Act. The legislation authorizes $4.8 billion for the National Institutes of Health to fund new initiatives in precision medicine, cancer, neuroscience, and regenerative medicine. The bill also provides $500 million over ten years for the Food and Drug Administration for the development of … Continue reading