CMS Launches Medicare Advantage Qualifying Payment Arrangement Incentive Demonstration
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is launching the Medicare Advantage Qualifying Payment Arrangement Incentive demonstration.
CMS Launches New Voluntary Bundled Payment Model
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has launched a new voluntary bundled payment model that qualifies as an advanced alternative payment model under its quality payment program.
CMS Proposes Paying for Telehealth and Overhauling Medicare Billing
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing a plan to pay doctors for virtual visits and overhaul Medicare billing standards put in place in the 1990s.
FDA Introduces Biosimilar Action Plan
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration introduced its Biosimilar Action Plan to help speed up approvals to enhance access to lower-cost biologics.
HHS Loosens Restrictions on Short-Term Health Plans
A final rule issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services allows insurers to once again sell short-term health insurance for up to 12 months, as well as makes the plans renewable for up to three years.
CMS Restores Risk Adjustment Program
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services adopted an interim final rule to restore $10.4 billion in funding to insurers to help them provide coverage to sick and
costly enrollees.
CMS Issues Final 2019 Payment Notice Rule
The Health and Human Services Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2019 aims to increase state flexibility, improve affordability, strengthen program integrity, empower consumers, promote stability and reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
New Policy Guidance Issued to Improve Medicaid Beneficiary Enrollment
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is providing new policy guidance to help states design demonstration projects that promote the objectives of the Medicaid program and are consistent with federal statutory requirements.
HHS Forms Conscience and Religious Freedom Division
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has formed a new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division in the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to restore federal enforcement of U.S. laws that protect the fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious freedom.
CMS Launches Voluntary Bundled Payment Model
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation has launched a new voluntary bundled payment model called Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced.
