After considerable debate and uncertainty about proposed regulations put forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CMS has released the 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule. Some of the concerns we have addressed in previous posts, such as...

As the implementation of the No Surprises Act and its relevant Interim Rules loom over the industry, questions linger about the specifics of the law. Now, as the second Interim Final Rule has been released to the public, some of these questions have been answered...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a financial loss for nearly every industry around the world. Now, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is attempting to combat these losses by opening up $25.5 billion of financial support for providers. While the...

CMS has now released its proposed changes to the Physician Fee Schedule for 2022. Their proposal contains numerous alterations and amendments to current rules, ranging from updates to the payment rate for physician services to the expansion of select Medicare...

The No Surprises Act passed at the end of last year as part of the Biden administration’s omnibus spending bill. According to the act, in almost all situations where there are surprise out-of-network bills (starting January 1st, 2022), providers will not be able to...

As someone in-the-know, you may have heard about some recent changes to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, or MIPS. The past year has presented some significant challenges for the industry, and while some of these changes are merely CMS responding to the...

Buprenorphine has been in the news over the past few months owing to the Trump administration’s proposed loosening of many restrictions regarding its prescription and use. While the Biden administration initially seemed hesitant to carry out this plan, on April 28th,...