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On July 25, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the CY 2019 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule, and we are seeing several efforts to continue the push towards “site neutral” payments in off-campus provider-based departments (PBDs). This rule was issued weeks after the CY 2019 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule, and the atypical lag time …

Summer headlines have been dominated by congressional efforts to repeal and replace portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and find a politically palatable path forward to shoring up the nongroup insurance market.

In early March, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposal to implement a national demonstration program that would fundamentally change the way Medicare pays physicians and hospitals for Part B drugs.