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CMS Expands Medicare Telehealth Coverage for Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Services
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) extended some Medicare coverage of telehealth services that the agency authorized during the Covid-19 pandemic. The changes were included in the final 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rule that was published in…
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HHS-OIG Requests Recommendations for New or Updated Safe Harbor Provisions
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) on Wednesday requested proposals and recommendations to develop new, or to modify existing, safe harbor provisions under the Social Security Act’s federal anti-kickback statute. The statute applies criminal…
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Biden Chooses California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to Lead HHS
President-elect Joseph Biden has selected Xavier Becerra, California’s attorney general, as his nominee to lead U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS). Becerra, who represented California in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2017, was chairman of the…
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HHS to Host Hospital Data Reporting Webinar on Nov. 13
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) will host a webinar on Friday, Nov. 13 at 1 p.m. ET to review the updated guidance for hospital data reporting requirements during the Covid-19 pandemic. This webinar is the fourth webinar…
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CMS Corrects Announcement to Say Providers Cannot Use PRF When Repaying Medicare Loans
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has corrected a misstatement in its Oct. 8 news release to say the nation’s healthcare providers and suppliers cannot use Provider Relief Funds (PRF) to repay Medicare loans the agency has made during…
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CMS Gives Medicare Part A & B Providers One More Year to Repay AAP Loans
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said Thursday it will give Medicare Part A and B providers and suppliers an additional year to repay loans the agency made to them during the Covid-19 public health emergency (PHE). CMS…
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New CMS Guidance Requires Psychiatric Hospitals to Report Covid-19 Data Weekly
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released guidance that requires Medicare- and Medicaid-participating psychiatric hospitals to report Covid-19 data to the agency on a weekly basis. CMS published an interim final rule in early September that said…
