The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Sept. 5 published a list of participants for the Transforming Episode Accountability Model. TEAM is a mandatory payment model that will bundle payment to acute care hospitals for five types of surgical episodes. The AHA June 10 urged CMS to make the model voluntary, however the mandatory model was finalized in the CY 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule.

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in a memo April 21that it is delaying implementation of the Medicare Part D portion of the Better…
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As published April 20, the Department of Justice released an interim final rule in the Federal Register to delay compliance dates for states and local…
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The Washington Post yesterday published a letter to the editor from AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack responding to an April 18 editorial criticizing the 340B…
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Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, in…
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The Health Resources and Services Administration should abandon its consideration of a 340B rebate model pilot program because “a rebate mechanism of any kind…
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The AHA and others April 17 filed an amicus brief requesting the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit grant en banc review of a panel decision that…