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- 10 Key Points: CY 2022 OPPS & ASC Proposed Rules
- 10 Tips When Applying for FEMA Relief
- 10 Tips. One Goal. Driving 340B Savings.
- 2021 Advis Survey Results
- 2021 Medicare Advantage & Part D Final Rule
- 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Telehealth Summary
- 2021 MPFS Update: Evaluation, Management & wRVU Changes
- 2021 OPPS and ASC Payment System Final Rule
- 2024 Micro-Hospital Update- No Longer Just a Trend | Whitepaper Download
- 340B ADR Proposed Rule – 2022
- 340B Medication Management
- 340B Mega-Guidance – Initial Summary
- 340B Recertification Begins Next Week
- 340B Tip Number 1: Compliance and OPPS Rules
- 340B Tip Number 2: State 340B Medicaid Billing Requirements
- 340B Tip Number 3: Don’t Fear a HRSA Audit of your 340B Program
- 4 Must-Dos to Ensure Enrollment Compliance
- 4 Strategies to Mitigate the Impact of 340B Payment Cuts
- 5 Things to Know About Bundled Payments
- 5 Things to Know about CMS “Exact Matching” Rules
- 8 Steps to Achieve a Successful Post-acute Strategy
- A Pharmacist’s Scope of Practice| Whitepaper Download
- Additional 2021 CMS Final Rule Updates
- Additional Telehealth Waivers
- Advance Medicare Payments Suspended
- Advis 2024 Healthcare Predictions
- Advis Alert – Prepare For New Modifiers Ahead
- Advis Attains Women’s Business Enterprise Certification
- Advis Cheers on Robby Shelton
- Advis Experts Explain The New CMS Exact Matching Rule
- Advis Featured In ASC Focus Magazine: Robotic Technology
- Advis Featured in Crain’s: Micro-hospitals
- Advis Featured in Crain’s: Strategy and Analytics
- Advis Group 2019 Predictions
- Advis Healthcare Survey
- Advis in Part B News: Gender Discrimination in Healthcare
- Advis in Wall Street Journal: Price Transparency
- Advis Is Now NY MWOSBE
- Advis Links To Golf Pro Robby Shelton
- Advis Named A ‘Best Place to Work’ in Healthcare
- Advis Promotions: 340B Experts to Senior Consultants
- Advis Survey: Price Transparency in Healthcare
- Advis Survey: Social Determinants of Health
- Amazon to Offer Lower-Cost Primary Care for Prime Members | WSJ
- Ambulatory Strategies Whitepaper
- Ambulatory Strategies: 2022 & Beyond
- American Rescue Plan: Additional COVID-19 Funding for FQHCs
- An Advis Update: Price Transparency
- An Industry Snapshot: Experts Surveyed Comment on Healthcare in 2022
- Andrea Graham
- Anti-Kickback Statute Reminder
- Appeals Court Defers Site-Neutral Payments to Agency
- Applying The KonMari Method To Provider Enrollment
- Are You Prepared? FEMA Disaster Response and Recovery
- Are You Ready For The Next Emergency?
- Behavioral Health Models Boom in 2023
- Big Win For Hospital Off Campus Provider-Based Locations
- Bryan Niehaus
- CARES Act: Provider Hot Spot Focus
- CARES Phase 3 Deadline This Friday: Assistance Available
- Certified RHCs Eligible for Additional Federal COVID-19 Funding
- Changes To IPPS and LTCH PPS Proposed Rule
- Checking in on Provider-based Compliance Trends| Whitepaper Download
- CHOW Tips in a Pandemic Era
- CHOW Tips: Efficient, Timely, & Accurate Change of Ownership
- Christopher Vitas
- CJR Model Changes
- Claims Containing Mismatched Addresses Will Be Returned Starting July 1, 2019
- CMS 2022 Final Rules: 21 Key Takeaways
- CMS 340B Proposed Changes Require Response and Comment
- CMS Announces End to Some COVID-19 Emergency Waivers for Nursing Facilities
- CMS Announces MIPS Credits for Clinicians
- CMS Announces New Uncompensated Care Audits For 2019
- CMS Approves Lump Sum Payment to 340B Hospitals
- CMS Begins Price Transparency Compliance Audits
- CMS Begins Uncompensated Care Audits.
- CMS COVID-19 Office Hours
- CMS Expanding “JG” and “TB” Modifier Requirements to All 340B Covered Entities
- CMS Expands Medicare Payments for Coronavirus Testing
- CMS Expands Window of Telehealth Eligibility
- CMS FAQs: Relocating Hospital Outpatient Departments
- CMS FINAL RULE – 1115 WAIVER DAYS IMPACT TO DSH PERCENTAGE
- CMS FINAL RULES: IMPROVEMENTS FROM PROPOSED BUT NOT ENOUGH TO MOVE THE NEEDLE
- CMS Finalizes Date for Implementation of “Exact Match” Requirements
- CMS Finalizes FY20 Rules for LTACH, IRF, SNF, Hospice and Psych
- CMS Finalizes Medicaid MCO Rule
- CMS Finalizes Price Transparency Requirements for Hospitals
- CMS Finalizes Rule to Reinstate Full 340B Drug Reimbursement
- CMS Is Exploring A.I. Are You?
- CMS Issues 2024 Hospital IPPS and LTCH PPS Final Rule
- CMS Issues 2024 IPPS & LTACH PPS Proposed Rule
- CMS Issues Blanket Regulatory Waivers
- CMS Issues New Regulatory Waivers
- CMS Issues OPPS/MPFS Final Rules
- CMS Issues Proposed Changes for Home Health in 2020
- CMS Offers Written Guidance: Telehealth
- CMS Prioritizes Survey Process Amid COVID-19 Crisis
- CMS Proposed Rules FY2025 With a Focus on Equity, Quality, Access and Rate Increases
- CMS PROPOSES $9 BILLION LUMP-SUM PAYMENT TO REFUND 340B HOSPITALS’; CORRESPONDING ‘BUDGET NEUTRAL’ FEE SCHEDULE REDUCTION
- CMS Proposes Conditions of Participation for New Rural Emergency Hospital Designation
- CMS Proposes Modified Price Transparency Requirements
- CMS Provides Guidelines for 2022 MPIP & MIPS Programs
- CMS Q&A Session Offers No Clarity Regarding Price Transparency Rule
- CMS Releases CY 2025 Medicare OPPS and ASC Payment System and MPFS Proposed Rules
- CMS Releases Proposed CY 2023 Medicare OPPS and ASC Rule
- CMS Releases Proposed CY 2024 Medicare MPFS, OPPS and ASC Rules
- CMS Releases the FY 2023 Medicare IPPS and LTACH Proposed Rule
- CMS Seeks to Clarify Critical Access Hospital Location Requirements in Proposed CoPs
- CMS to Reprocess 2019 Outpatient Claims at Excepted Off-Campus HOPDs
- CMS’ FY 2022 Medicare IPPS & LTACH Proposed Rule
- CMS’ FY 2019 Final Rules: Key Takeaways
- Congress Establishes New Venue for Medicare Providers
- Congress May Vote on Mandatory HOPD Attestations This Week
- Congress Targets Medicare Fraud and Abuse
- COVID-19 Emergency Declaration Coming to an End
- COVID-19 Incentive Payments Distributed to Nursing Homes by HHS
- Crisis Related FAQs Answered by Advis
- CY 2022 MPFS Proposed Rule: 7 Key Details
- CY 2023 CMS MPFS Final Rule: Key Details
- CY 2023 OPPS and ASC Payment System Final Rule
- CY2025 OPPS and MPFS Final Rules
- District Court Vacates HHS’s 340B Reimbursement Cuts for the Remainder of 2022
- Diversity & Inclusion In Modern Medical Practices
- Diversity Sets The Tone for a Safe & Inclusive Workplace
- DMEPOs Whitepaper
- Does Your Micro-Hospital Meet the Standard?
- Dollar General Opens Mobile Healthcare Clinics | Modern Healthcare
- Drug Manufacturers May Take Harmful Action: 340B Hospitals
- Eligible Medical Care and Vaccine-Related Expenses: FEMA
- Every Penny Counts: Top Strategies to Optimize your Billing/Finance Service Line
- Exact Match Implementation
- Exact Match Update: Enforcement Date Delayed
- Exact Match Update: Enforcement Date Still TBD
- Expanded 340B Eligibility: Act Now
- FAQs, Answers and Updates Too
- FCC Approves COVID-19 Telehealth Program
- FDA Publishes Guidance For Genetic Testing
- FEMA Announces 90% Federal Cost Share Funding Submission Deadline
- FEMA Announces COVID-19 Public Assistance Incident Period Closure
- FEMA Announces Extended Deadline
- FEMA Announces Final Deadlines for Requesting COVID-19 Public Assistance and Project Applications
- FEMA Issues Revised Duplication of Benefits Policy
- FEMA Offers New Guidance on Eligible Care Costs
- FEMA Whitepaper: Key Funding Distinctions for Hospitals
- Fierce Healthcare Reports Trends & Issues to Watch
- Five Tips for DMEPOS Suppliers to Maintain Compliance with Medicare Enrollment Requirements
- Florida Releases Class I Hospitals From The CON Process
- FQHC White Paper Available
- FQHC- A Regulatory Overview and Update| Whitepaper Download
- Frank Banfer
- Free Reference Tool for Modifier Identification Available
- Funding Overview for CARES Act
- Health Leaders Focus on Social Determinants of Health
- Healthcare Team Virtual Management| Whitepaper Download
- HealthSmart: Advis’ Q1 2020 Newsletter
- HealthSmart: Advis’ Q2 Newsletter is Now Available
- HealthSmart: Advis’ Q3 Newsletter is Now Available
- HealthSmart: Advis’ Q4 Newsletter is Now Available
- HHS Finalizes 340B ADR Regulations
- HHS Releases New CARES Act FAQs
- HHS Updates Provider Relief Fund Reporting Requirements
- Home Health Conditions of Participation Changes: 20 Years in the Making
- Homecare Moratorium Lifted by CMS
- Hospital “Provider-Based” Sites Continues to Rise
- Hospital-At-Home Program Likely Continues
- Hospital-Based Outpatient Imaging Plan B
- House Bill Proposes Cuts to Hospital Outpatient Reimbursement & Imposes Mandatory Compliance & Reporting Filings
- House Introduces New Bill to Forgive Medicare Provider Loans
- HRSA Announces $25.5B in New Provider Funding & Reporting Grace Period
- HRSA ISSUES CHILD SITE ELIGIBILITY GUIDANCE
- HRSA Issues Guidance: 340B Eligibility
- HRSA Offers 340B Flexibility
- HRSA Reimbursement Available For Vaccine Administration
- HRSA Unexpectedly Changes Policy on 340B Eligibility for Newly Established HOPD Sites
- Hurricane Harvey FEMA Reimbursement Assistance
- IDTF: A Popular Opportunity for Entrepreneurs & Hospitals
- Immediate Money Available to COVID-19 Responders
- Important Deadline: Illinois HFS CARES Funding
- Improving Quality Scores = Operational Success!
- Industry Professionals Weigh In: Future of Healthcare Survey
- Industry Survey: Battling a Blossoming Virus
- Information Blocking Rule & Health IT Extended
- IPPS, Litigation News, Other Gaps
- Jake Beechy
- Key Guidance Now Available: New Medicare Loan Legislation
- Key Takeaways from CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule
- Key Takeaways From CMS’ CY 2019 MPFS and OPPS Proposed Rule
- Key Takeaways from Final CY 2024 Medicare MPFS, OPPS and ASC Rules
- Key Takeaways: CMS 2021 IPPS Rule
- Key Takeaways: CMS’s CY 2021 Medicare OPPS Proposed Rule
- Key Takeaways: CMS’s CY 2021 MPFS Proposed Rule
- Key Takeaways: Final Rule on Price Transparency
- Latest Survey of Industry Executives: Future of Healthcare
- Legislative and Policy Analysis
- Long Awaited CMS Guidance Leaves Co-Located Entities Asking Questions
- Long Term Acute Care Hospitals Download
- Long-Term Success In Long-Term Care
- LTACH Reimbursement
- LTACH Reimbursement & Development Strategies
- LTACHs: An Integral Part of the Healthcare Continuum
- Lyndean Lenhoff Brick
- MACRA/APM/MIPS: ARE YOU READY?
- Mandatory Data Analysis & Submission for Qualifying Labs
- Mastering SNF Billing Operations
- MecPac Has Proposed A Unified PPS
- Medicare Advantage Telehealth CMS Final Rule Summary
- Medicare Fact Sheet: Telehealth Reimbursement
- Medicare Physician Fee Schedule- IDTF Update
- Medicare Provider Enrollment Clarification & Updates
- Medicare Stats
- MedPAC June 2017 Report Highlights
- Mergers & Acquisitions In Social Determinants of Health
- Mergers & Acquisitions: Know FCC Requirements
- Micro-Hospitals in Post-Pandemic America Whitepaper
- Micro-Hospitals Post COVID-19
- Modern Healthcare – CMS proposes streamlining Medicare provider application
- Modern Healthcare – Not-for-profit hospitals’ cost-cutting isn’t keeping up with revenue decline
- Modern Healthcare – To build or not to build? Micro-hospitals gaining favor with health systems amid shift to ambulatory care
- Modern Healthcare – Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire crown Gawande: Does he have the business chops?
- Modern Healthcare – Healthcare execs look to make deals in 2018
- Modern Healthcare – Rules aim to meet dual CMS goals of saving money, doctor empowerment
- Monica Hon
- Murer Consultants is Now Advis
- Myron Brick
- Natasha Shukla
- Navigating 340B in 2023: 7 Topics to Watch| Whitepaper Download
- New Blanket Waivers Released by CMS
- New CMS Final Rule For “OPPS”: What You Must Know for 340B and More
- New CMS Final Rules: 10 Essential Takeaways
- New CMS Guidance on Modifier Implementation for 340B Reimbursement Reduction
- New COVID-19 Stimulus Bill
- New from CMS: Sweeping Expansion of Telehealth
- New Funding Allocations Announced
- New Home Health CoPs – Are You In Compliance?
- New MPFS Rule: The Future of Telehealth
- New Nursing Home Transparency Guidelines from CMS
- New Pricing Models for Medicare Part B Drugs
- New Report in Hospital Costs
- New State Specific CMS 1135 Approved Waivers
- NGS Prior Authorization Program Recap
- NGS Recap for COVID-19
- No Surprises Act: Key Impacts & What’s Next
- Non-Traditional Service Lines: Partner with a FQHC
- Ohio Hospital Licensure Deadline
- Optimize 340B for Prison System Relationships
- Outpatient Surgery Policy: Modern Healthcare
- Pharmacists Can Submit Claims in Washington and California
- Phase One: Resuming Elective Surgeries During Crisis
- Post-Acute Final Rules
- Predictions 2020: Healthcare Changes Big & Small
- President Trump Declares National Emergency
- President Trump Signs $2 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Package
- Preston Sisler
- Price Transparency & Rate Increases
- Price Transparency in Healthcare Dive
- Price Transparency Updates Effective 1/1/24
- Private Non-Profit Hospitals: FEMA Reimbursements
- Program Integrity Enhancements
- Projected CMS Rules Look to Shift Traditional Healthcare Delivery
- Provider Enrollment Tips
- Provider Enrollment: CMS-855 Authorized Officials
- Provider Rescue: Regulations, Revenue, & Compliance
- Provisions from the American Rescue Plan Act
- Quality Payment Program Update
- Rachel Spence
- Randi Critchfield
- Regulatory Compliance: Off-campus Provider-based Hospital Outpatient Departments
- Reporting Requirements for Provider Relief Fund
- Robert Monroe
- Rural Health Clinics: Key Provider Highlights
- Rural Health Strategies – Advis Whitepaper
- Ryan Bailey
- Ryan Yokley
- Second Stimulus Signed: Key Impacts
- Senate Releases Draft 340B Bill – Requests Stakeholder Comments
- Sept 30: The Possible Sunset of the LTACH Moratorium
- Site Neutral Payment Update
- SNF Viability Post COVID-19
- Supreme Court Rules HHS’s 340B Reimbursement Rates Unlawful
- Susan Maupin
- Sylvie Brick
- Telehealth: COVID-19 Impact
- Telehealth: Start with the Basics
- Telehealth: Where Tech & Healthcare Meet – Advis Whitepaper
- Termination of Nursing Home 1135 Waivers
- Texting Patient Orders and Information: What’s Permissible to Remain Compliant?
- The Advis Group Earns WOSB Certification!
- The Advis Q2 2020 Newsletter is Now Available
- The Advis Q3 2020 Newsletter is Here
- The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Payment Model
- The Future of Healthcare Post-Pandemic
- The Importance of a Philanthropic Strategic Plan
- The No Surprises Act Takes Effect Next Month – Are Providers Ready?
- The Optimization of Telehealth
- The Transitional Care Model (TCM)
- Tips To Prepare For Your FEMA Filing
- Transforming Labor & Delivery
- Transforming Safety-Net Hospitals
- Two Models of LTACH
- U.S. Court of Appeals Rules in Favor of Drug Manufacturers
- Vaccine Requirements Expanded for Providers: CMS Interim Rule to Follow
- Valerie Ford
- We Know Provider Enrollment. Get Our Update!
- Will Your Clinicians Lose Out On Medicare Reimbursement?