Publications by Lauren G. Hulls

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CMS Extends (Yet Again!) Deadline for Disclosure Requirements for Skilled Nursing Facilities – Provider Enrollment Off-Cycle Revalidations 

[07/17/25]

CMS Extends (Again!) Deadline for Disclosure Requirements for Skilled Nursing Facilities – Provider Enrollment Off-Cycle Revalidations

[04/17/25]

Revisiting Disclosure Requirements for Skilled Nursing Facilities as Deadline Approaches

[03/20/25]

CMS Updates Disclosure Requirements for Skilled Nursing Facilities – Provider Enrollment Off-Cycle Revalidations

[12/17/24]

CMS Extends Deadline for Disclosure Requirements for Skilled Nursing Facilities – Provider Enrollment Off-Cycle Revalidations

[11/06/24]

New Medicare Disclosure Requirements for Skilled Nursing Facilities – Provider Enrollment Off-Cycle Revalidations – Watch for a Revalidation Request

[10/22/24]

Key Highlights from the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule

[09/10/24]

Buyer Beware: CMS Finalizes Ownership Disclosure Requirements for Medicare Skilled Nursing Facilities and Medicaid Nursing Facilities

[12/20/23]

Medicare Exact Match Update: Provider Compliance Required Effective 8/1/2023

[07/28/23]

Home Health PPS Proposed Rule for CY 2024: Broad Rule Has Something for Everyone

[07/14/23]

Proposed Ownership Disclosure Requirements for Medicare Skilled Nursing Facilities and Medicaid Nursing Facilities

[02/21/23]

Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2023: What Providers Need to Know

[12/30/22]

Skilled Nursing Transactions Update: CMS Enhances Scrutiny of Changes of Ownership for Skilled Nursing Facilities

[11/18/22]

CMS Finalizes Co-Location Guidance: Uncertainty Remains

[11/18/21]

Key Medicare Payment Policy Changes from the CMS CY 2022 MPFS Final Rule

[11/16/21]

Final Rule for 2022 OPPS/ASC Payment Addresses Price Transparency Penalties, Covered Procedures Criteria and Much More

[11/16/21]

CMS Flexibilities for Relocation of Provider-Based Hospital Departments During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

[05/07/20]

CMS Flexibilities for Billing Hospital Outpatient Therapeutic Services During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

[05/05/20]

Medicare’s Interim Final Rule Addressing COVID-19 Provides Some Home Health and Hospice Relief

[04/01/20]

Hospital Exact Match Claim Edits Further Delayed Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

[03/25/20]

CMS Finalizes New Anti-Fraud Tools Aimed at Affiliations

[09/10/19]

CMS Proposes Payment Policy Changes Impacting Hospital Outpatient Department Services – What You Need to Know

[08/02/19]

Location Matters Update: CMS Postpones Exact Match Billing Rule – AGAIN

[07/02/19]

CMS Postpones Rules for Billing Off-Campus Provider-Based Departments Until July 2019

[03/29/19]

Location Matters: Get It Right or Don’t Get Paid

[03/06/19]

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Services: 2017 OIG Work Plan Initiative Finds 85 Percent of Claims Billed in Error

[04/26/18]

Overreaching Edits Deactivated for CAH Method II Claims

[03/07/18]

CMS Guidance May Prevent Inpatient Rehabilitation Claim Denials

[03/05/18]

CMS Guidance Impacts Micro Hospitals

[10/05/17]

CMS Clarifies Definition of Hospital: What It Means to Be “Primarily Engaged”

[09/07/17]

Sleep Centers Wake Up to Medicare Accreditation Changes

[05/05/17]

CMS Delays Expansion of Bundled Payment Programs

[03/21/17]

CMS Issues Final Rule for New Bundled Payment Models

[01/18/17]

Final MACRA Rule Issued: It’s Time for Providers to Pick Their Pace

[10/14/16]

CMS Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for New Bundled Payment Models

[08/09/16]

Medicare Releases Proposed Rule for Physician Payment Overhaul

[04/28/16]

CMS Launches Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative

[04/15/16]

CMS Proposes Enhanced Provider Enrollment Disclosure Obligations and Enforcement Authority

[03/07/16]

Failure to Be “Primarily Engaged” in Patient Care Puts Hospitals’ Medicare Provider Agreements at Risk

[03/02/16]

The Early Bird Gets the Performance Incentives: An Update on MACRA and Why Providers Should Prepare Now

[02/25/16]

CMS Issues Draft Quality Measure Development Plan for MIPS & APM Transition

[01/11/16]

Advanced Care Planning an Optional Element of an Annual Wellness Visit

[01/11/16]

New CMS Regulation Targets Billing Privileges

[12/11/14]

CMS Publishes 2014 Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Final Rule

[12/09/13]

CMS Publishes 2014 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule

[12/06/13]

Hall Render’s Practical Health – Second Quarter 2012

[07/01/12]

DSH Data Now Available – CMS Webinar May 8 on Data Use Agreement Requirements

[05/07/12]

First in Series on Medicare DSH and Top Cost Report Appeal Issues

[04/10/12]

CMS Issues FFY 2012 IRF PPS Final Rule

[08/09/11]

Favorable Opinion Issued in Cape Cod v. Sebelius

[01/14/11]

Hall Render’s Practical Health – February/March 2010

[02/01/10]