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CMS Releases Proposed Physician Fee Schedule Rule for CY 2019

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today proposed to update physician fee schedule rates by 0.25% in calendar year 2019.

CMS’s Verma Discusses Regulatory Relief, Move to Valued-based Payment

Watch the video Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma today discussed a num

House Panel Holds Hospital Forum on Regulatory Relief

Reforming the Medicare conditions of participation and modernizing the Stark Law are key to regulatory relief and the transition to value, Advocate Aurora Health Chief Medical Officer Lee Sacks, M.D., told the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee yesterday.

HRSA Seeks Comments on Reducing Regulatory Burden

The Health Resources and Services Administration seeks comments through July 2 on how it could streamline its compliance and reporting requirements for certain programs and grant recipients.

Rep. Roskam Discusses Regulatory Relief, Opioids and Drug Prices

Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL), chairman of the Health Subcommittee on Ways and Means, today stressed the need for Congress to reduce certain regulations on providers that “have no relationship to patient health.”

HHS Secretary Alex Azar Addresses AHA Annual Meeting

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar today at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting in Washington, DC, laid out the department’s four areas of emphasis for creating a value-based health care delivery system and urged hospital and health system leaders to help accelerate progress.

House Hearing Examines Health Care Innovation and Technology

The House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee today held a hearing on innovative practices and technology in health care.

Perspective: Lifting the Burden on America’s Hospitals and Health Systems

We’re pleased to see CMS follow through on its commitment to reduce regulatory burden. This is crucially needed as we continue, and accelerate, the transition to value-based care.

Making Progress on Regulatory Relief

The sheer volume of regulations on the books and the scope of change required in meeting them are outstripping the hospital field’s ability to absorb them.