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CMS Clarifies Medicare Home Health CY2023 Rate Development for Stakeholders
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MA Rates Rise for CY2024, Part D Costs to Fall
CMS announced March 31 that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will receive a 3.32% rate increase for CY2024, as part of CMS’s CY2024 Final Rate Announcement. […]
LeadingAge Recommends Improvements to Section 202 Production
LeadingAge’s April 3, 2023 letter to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) calls out several improvement areas for processing Section 202 capital advances […]
End of PHE vs. End of National Emergency
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has clarified in writing that the end of the National Emergency and the end of the Public Health […]
CMS: No Rate Reduction Notices from ERC
To expedite communication with states, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) emailed State Medicaid agencies indicating they should treat Employee Retention Credits (ERC) like […]
MA PHE Accommodations to End May 11
Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations benefitted from temporary enforcement discretion related to certain MA policies during the COVID Public Health Emergency (PHE). Some plans used this […]
Education and Workforce Committee Focus on Hiring and Employment
On March 28, the House Education and the Workforce Committee held a hearing titled, “Unleashing America’s Opportunities for Hiring and Employment.” The Committee’s Chairwoman, Virginia Foxx (R-VA), […]
2.8% Increase in FY24 Hospice Proposed Rule
The Office of Management and Budget concluded its review of the hospice rule on March 30 and the 2024 proposed hospice rule was published in […]
Committee Recommends PACE Expansion
The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services (the committee) released their policy brief and recommendations to the secretary on Programs of All […]