Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 25, 2024

Regulators are pumping the brakes on Novant Health’s deal to buy two North Carolina hospitals from Community Health Systems (CHS), citing concerns of higher healthcare costs and little incentive fo | The transaction for Lake Norman Regional Medical Center, Davis Regional Medical Center and other assets would give Novant Health 65% control of the inpatient (..)

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Despite widespread support from healthcare workers and hospital associations, federal regulations protecting hospital workers have previously failed to advance in Congress.

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Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Washington state Senate advanced legislation Thursday that grants the state attorney authority to deny mergers that may limit healthcare access.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 18, 2022

"A much higher update is warranted," the American Hospital Association said in a statement citing increased inflation.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Regulators finalized a number of rules Thursday with sweeping implications for providers in the Medicare program, including rates for next year that doctors and hospitals slammed as insufficient.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 29, 2024

The FTC filed for a preliminary injunction this week to block the deal, but an expert says the antitrust agency’s efforts to regulate such deals are akin to trying to stop a “ball that’s already rolling downhill.”

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 10, 2024

Antitrust agencies could be sympathetic toward the deal, given Steward’s financial distress and important hospital portfolio. But sympathy won’t shield the deal from scrutiny, an expert told Healthcare Dive.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 5, 2024

Hospitals designated as trauma centers are charging more than their counterparts for nontrauma admissions and emergency department visits, suggesting that the local monopolies over trauma services | A new analysis of about 2,000 hospitals suggests that hospitals' regulator-granted monopoly over trauma care can extend into other types of services. (..)

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 9, 2022

Regulators have been criticized for moving slowly to enforce the rules, which came into effect January last year amid fierce opposition from hospital groups.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 18, 2024

Regulators seeking to erect guardrails around AI are facing a Sisyphean task, experts said at HIMSS. How do you oversee something that is constantly changing?

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 9, 2024

All 11 of Massachusetts’ federal legislators are calling on regulators to keep a short leash on UnitedHealth Group’s proposed acquisition of Steward Health Care’s physician group, even if that mean | The financial jeopardy of Steward's remaining hospitals can't override the long-term cost and quality harms that would likely follow UnitedHealth (..)

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Healthcare It News

JULY 21, 2023

They go on to describe how integrated tools on hospital and telemedicine websites can not only send PHI information directly back, but third parties like Google and Meta/Facebook may continue to track and gather information about patients even after they navigate away. tracking technology vendors) includes PHI.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Regulators allege the $142.5 million deal to buy the remaining stake in San Ramon Regional Medical Center would further reduce competition and drive up prices.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Rural providers are weighing whether to switch to a new payment model as federal regulators aim to curb hospital closures.

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 19, 2024

The health systems argued in a court filing that regulators’ allegations are based on a “distorted and artificially narrow view” of the healthcare market in the Charlotte area.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 8, 2023

A bipartisan quartet of influential senators are tapping tax regulators within the U.S. | A bipartisan group of senators sent requests to federal tax agencies and regulators for information on what currently passes muster as a "community benefit."

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Health Care Dive

JULY 10, 2023

Hospital groups said the proposed rule is an important step toward restitution for years of 340B underpayments, but they criticized regulators for proposed rate decreases and a lack of additional interest payments.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 18, 2023

Hospital groups said they were deeply disappointed with the decision, which removes a guidepost for those looking to consolidate without attracting the ire of regulators.

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NASHP

AUGUST 30, 2023

To view the model act, visit Model Rural Emergency Hospital Act. Congress established a Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) Designation as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 for certain hospitals that meet requirements set out in 42 U.S.C. REHs also may be independent or owned by a hospital system.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Empirical evidence suggests that hospital-at-home care is safe and effective. Not a week goes by now where we don’t hear a story of a patient or a family member asking for hospital at home,” Dr. Based in Boston, Medically Home is an at-home, high-acuity care enabler and provider. were transferred to the hospital.

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NASHP

AUGUST 30, 2023

To learn more about this model act, check out our blog, Rural Emergency Hospitals: Model Legislation and Considerations for States. Title This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Rural Emergency Hospital Act. Drafting Note : Rural emergency hospitals are defined in accordance with federal regulations, 87 Fed Reg.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 4, 2024

A bipartisan spending bill unveiled Sunday narrows some of this year’s cuts to physician Medicare pay, pushes back scheduled disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payment cuts and increases annual | A 1,050-page bill unveiled Sunday included several key lobbying focuses for providers but excludes other hot-button topics like potential pharmacy benefit (..)

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Readiness Rounds

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In today’s blog post we're discussing how Rise & Shine–our latest regulatory compliance solution–can help hospitals deal with the tightened CMS rules on unannounced visits. The Tightening Grip of CMS Regulations 2. 7 Challenges Hospitals Face During Unannounced Regulatory Visits 4. Headlines: 1. Key Takeaways 5.

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Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Federal regulators are seeking information about the for-profit hospital operator's inpatient admissions and dialysis processes and procedures.

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 24, 2023

As we anticipated in our previous blog article , the Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) made revisions to its proposed regulations following the public workshop hosted by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) in August. On October 9, 2023, HCAI and OHCA published a revised draft of the regulations.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 17, 2021

An HHS watchdog says Medicare could see significant cost savings if regulators did away with the carveout. Currently, new facilities help pay for their capital costs through a special exemption.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A House vote on transparency regulations in healthcare could occur next week, potentially having substantial ramifications on how PBMs and hospitals operate. | Bipartisan anticipation is in the air for a potential vote in the House this week that would bring transparency to PBMs and ban spread pricing in Medicaid, but hospital groups are firmly opposed (..)

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 19, 2021

The letter included an updated AHA-funded study on the benefits of hospital mergers, which was previously criticized by outside experts for cherry-picked data, among other methodological weaknesses.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 19, 2023

John Muir Health will no longer acquire a California medical center from Tenet Healthcare, one month after regulators sued to block the deal over concerns it could drive up health costs in the region.

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 25, 2023

LCMC Health and regulators have filed dueling court requests over whether state acquisition approval preempts federal antitrust review in LCMC’s acquisition of three facilities from HCA.

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Sheppard Health Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Takeaways of Workshop Discussion The public workshop drew key stakeholders from across the healthcare spectrum, each with differing perspectives on potential impacts of the proposed regulations and considerations for OHCA as it works to finalize them.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Biden administration’s healthcare regulators released new guidances, informational resources and other actions that reinforce payers and hospitals’ federal obligations surrounding reproductive | New letters and instructional materials out of HHS come amid reported contraception coverage barriers and escalating legal challenges over emergency abortion (..)

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A group of healthcare organizations announced this week the launch of the Advanced Care at Home Coalition, an advocacy effort aimed at creating a pathway toward safeguarding access to hospital-level services. The coalition's perspective, he said, is that regulators should "put guardrails on, but let us continue the good work."

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 25, 2023

Regulating cross-market mergers will be “on the radar” of policymakers and regulators as they become increasingly common, the report noted.

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Sheppard Health Law

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Our earlier blog articles from August , September , and October track the developments of these regulations as OHCA prepares to publish its final rule. This article summarizes the key tweaks to the proposed regulations since the last version published in October.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver was a major boost for organizations hoping to implement or expand hospital-at-home programs. 21 2023, 305 hospitalsand 129 systems in 37 states have been approved to provide hospital-at-home care under the CMS waiver program.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Just eight states challenged the majority of the deals that regulators scrutinized during a 10-year time period. Still, it did little to slow price increases, according to new research in Health Affairs.

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