Busy Week for HHS Amid Looming Shutdown
The looming federal shutdown was narrowly avoided this weekend after President Biden signed the $1.2 trillion spending package on Saturday. This package includes funding for
The looming federal shutdown was narrowly avoided this weekend after President Biden signed the $1.2 trillion spending package on Saturday. This package includes funding for
By now, you may have heard of or read something about the brutal cyberattack that hit UnitedHealth Group (UHG) subsidiary Change Healthcare. The scope of
The No Surprises Act (NSA) law continues to dominate the news yet again. While we’re not expecting any imminent sweeping overhauls of the law, we
To provide a No Surprises Act update, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) new Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) guidelines face backlash from medical
The Biden Administration has found itself in court in the state of Texas again – but not over the No Surprises Act (NSA) this time!
What happens when the streams cross? One of the most memorable lines from the 1984 comedy film Ghostbusters was when Harold Ramis’s character, Egon Spengler,
Press releases from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are typically rather straightforward, easily summarized as: here’s what we’re doing, why we’re doing
On the June 5 edition of Monitor Mondays and in a recent RACmonitor news article, Dr. Bonny Olney from R1 RCM spoke about those patients
The drug data report is a requirement of the No Surprises Act. The No Surprises Act (NSA) requires the collection and reporting of the prescription
A timely update on the NSA and the AEOB. In August, the administration published the final final rule on the No Surprises Act’s Independent Dispute
The uncomfortable truth about the coronavirus pandemic? A near-total and indefinite shutdown of American life is probably just the beginning. EDITOR’S NOTE: Veteran RACmonitor
The OIG has instructed MACs to recoup the entire DRG payment on claims dating back to 2016. EDITOR’S NOTE: The RACmonitor special bulletin of Jan.
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