Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services
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Health care professionals around the country have been patiently waiting for almost three years for the newest refinements to the Stark law. Stark is a federal law that prohibits doctors from referring patients for certain services covered by Medicare or other federally supported health programs to an entity with which the referring doctor has a financial interest, unless the arrangement meets certain exceptions.
The waiting ended on March 26, 2004, when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Stark II, Phase II interim regulations, which regulations went into effect on July 26, 2004. CMS not only published the regulations, but CMS also published 70-plus pages of comments regarding the Phase II regulations. Although this material covers many situations, there a...
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On May 5, 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final rule making changes to CMS's Conditions of Participation (CoPs...
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On May 5, 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final rule making changes to CMS's Conditions of Participation (CoPs...
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* Medicare demonstration project demonstrates that care coordination supported by content-based remote patient monitoring results in improved patient ...
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Increases 2010 Guidance to Include Impact of Additional $22.3 Million in Revenue and $0.24 in Earnings per Diluted Share
New Guidance Includes Capac...
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On July 2, 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed change...
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-Year CMS Veteran to Help Nation's Leading Patient Advocacy Organization Formulate Strategic Policy and Comment Upon Regulations Affecting Patient Access to Care
WASHINGTON, April 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Patient Advocate Foundation (NPAF) - a national, non-profit organization dedicated to the mission of creating avenues of improved patient access to healthcare through public policy reform at the state and federal levels - welcomed today Stefan (Steve) Miller, former Director of the Division of Non-Institutional Quality Standards, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), as Executive Vice President of Regulatory Affairs. In this position, Miller will assist NPAF in coordinating its regulatory review program, a...
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On July 2, 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed change...