On Friday, July 17, 2020, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found in favor of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) by holding that Medicare Part B payment cuts to certain services provided to Medicare beneficiaries in off-campus provider-based departments (“PBDs”) are within the agency’s statutory authority. More specifically, … Continue reading
We previously summarized certain provisions of CMS’s CY 2019 OPPS/ASC final rule published on November 2. See here. In this final rule CMS significantly expands its Medicare site-neutral payment policy beginning January 1, 2019. As we previously described, CMS did not finalize its proposal that an excepted off-campus provider-based department (PBD) will be paid under … Continue reading
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