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2024 MIPS Exception Application Now Available
CMS recently released its 2024 Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable (EUC) Circumstances exception application.
June 3, 2024
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HRS Continues Active Participation in AMA RUC Activities
The American Medical Association (AMA)/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) has been a key stakeholder in maintaining and updating the relative value units…
June 3, 2024
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Ways and Means Holds Hearing on Challenges Facing Independent Medicine
The U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on May 23rd titled “The Collapse of Private Practice: Examining…
June 3, 2024
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Senate Finance Releases Bipartisan Physician Payment Reform, Workforce Proposals
Senate Committee on Finance Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) released a paper in May outlining policy options to reform the…
June 3, 2024
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UHG CEO Andrew Witty Testifies on Change Cyberattack
Chief Executive Officer of UnitedHealth Group Andrew Witty testified before members of Congress on May 1st about the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare, a subsidiary…
May 7, 2024
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HRS Position on Ablations in Ambulatory Surgical Centers
Since the public health emergency (PHE) due to the COVID-19 pandemic, efforts have been made to increase patient access to different sites of care.
May 7, 2024
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CMS Releases FY 2025 Hospital Inpatient Payment Proposed Rule
On April 10th, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule for fiscal year (FY)…
May 7, 2024
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Energy and Commerce Holds Legislative Hearing on Telehealth Access
On April 10th, the House of Representatives Committee on Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing to discuss legislative proposals to support patient…
May 7, 2024
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Senate Finance Holds Hearing to Consider Reforms to Medicare Payment System
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are working to reform the physician payment system following the Medicare reimbursement cut that took effect on January 1, 2024.
May 7, 2024
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MedPAC Considers Changes to Medicare Physician Payments as 2023-2024 Meeting Cycle Ends
On April 11th and 12th, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) held the final meeting of its 2023-2024 policy making cycle.
May 7, 2024