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08.16.21

CY 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule Proposes Extended Telehealth Benefits

On July 13, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the annual Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule for calendar year 2022.


07.21.21

Provider Relief Fund Reporting and Updated Guidance

With the Provider Relief Fund reporting portal now open, the Department of Health & Human Services has released additional guidance to providers on the reporting requirements and use of funds through two recent updates.


07.13.21

First Regulation on Surprise Billing Demonstrates Complexity Ahead for Health Plans and Providers

After years of concern from policymakers and industry stakeholders about patients receiving surprise medical bills when they inadvertently use an out-of-network provider, a new federal law will go into effect January 1, 2022, that could largely eliminate these surprise bills.


06.22.21

New Report and Infographic: State Budgets in the Wake of COVID-19

The financial strain of COVID-19 raised significant uncertainties around the resources that states would have available post-pandemic and where they would be willing to invest what many feared would be sharply restricted budgets.


06.08.21

Health Care Policy Trends From the 2021 State Legislative Session

This month, a majority of states are beginning to adjourn their 2021 legislative sessions.


05.10.21

Update: Tracking Telehealth Changes State by State in Response to COVID-19

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers and providers are looking for ways to maintain expanded access to telehealth services.


04.26.21

HHS Renews COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Through July 19, 2021; Additional Renewals Are Expected

On April 15, 2021, the HHS announced that the PHE declaration for COVID‑19 will be renewed for another 90 days, beginning on April 21 (the date the PHE was previously scheduled to expire) and extending through July 19, 2021.


03.17.21

Congress Passes American Rescue Plan; Health Coverage Provisions Could Have Lasting Impacts

On March 11, President Joe Biden signed an approximately $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill—the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.


01.14.21

HHS Finalizes Automatic SUNSET Dates and Mandatory Reassessment Requirements for Most Regulations

On January 8, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released a final rule that imposes a ten-year sunset date on most regulations that have ever been, or will ever be, issued by HHS and its component agencies, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and ...


01.13.21

HHS Renews the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Through April 20, 2021

On Thursday, January 8, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced that the Public Health Emergency (PHE) declaration for COVID‑19 will be renewed for another 90 days, beginning on January 21 (the date the PHE was previously scheduled to expire) and extending through ...