The feds have set new deadlines for compliance with Medicaid renewal requirements given widespread enrollment concerns during the unwinding. In a new notice (PDF), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

CMS has started auditing a sample of hospitals for compliance with the price transparency rule, an agency spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s Hospital Review. Under the rule, which took effect Jan. 1, ...

Price transparency adherence may become more complex in 2024. CMS recently released the 2024 OPPS proposed rule, and among the yearly payment rate changes, CMS proposed changes to its price ...

Oversight of the COVID-19 vaccination mandate covering healthcare facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid will no longer be part of all CMS surveys. The agency, in a memo sent to state ...

The federal agency has highlighted areas of improvement to get more facilities complying with the regulation. CMS is aware more needs to be done to achieve better price transparency compliance by ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has fined two hospitals in September for alleged violations of its price transparency rule. This marks the third month in a row that the agency has ...

Inspectors for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will no longer check for provider compliance with the staff COVID-19 vaccine mandate during all surveys. The agency, in a memo to state ...

A new study reveals that inpatient psychiatric facilities are spending vast amounts of their budgets to comply with CMS regulations. Medicare costs these facilities an average of $1.7 billion annually ...

Advanced Medicare payments to providers in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic – about $103 billion worth – were compliant with federal and congressional requirements, meaning they largely hit ...

In 2019, three months after Superintendent Clayton Wilcox negotiated a resignation, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board voted to hire an independent compliance officer with the power to investigate ...