Publications by Jennifer Fouts Skeels

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CMS Proposes New Rules Blocking Funding to Providers of Gender-Affirming Care to Minors

[12/19/25]

"DEI Scrutiny Update: DOJ Issues Guidance on Anti-Discrimination Obligations for Federal Funding Recipients." Journal of Healthcare Compliance, November-December 2025.

[11/04/2025]

Update on DOJ Subpoenas Regarding Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

[08/22/25]

DEI Scrutiny Update: DOJ Issues Guidance on Anti-Discrimination Obligations for Federal Funding Recipients 

[08/08/25]

What Is ASM? New Ambulatory Specialty Model Proposed by CMMI in CY 2026 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule

[07/31/25]

Accreditation Update: Changes to the Joint Commission Standards

[07/31/25]

Reforms to Organ Procurement Oversight for Donations After Circulatory Death: What Health Care Providers Need to Know

[07/25/25]

"As Executive Branch Scrutiny of DEI Programs Intensifies, Companies Must Assess All Aspects of Their Policies and Business Practices to Ensure Compliance with Civil Rights Laws," Journal of Health Care Compliance/Wolters Kluwer, July-August 2025.

[07/22/2025]

"What High Court's Tenn. Trans Care Ruling Means Nationally," Law360 (July 2025).

[07/03/2025]

Compliance Deadline July 1, 2025: CMS Hospital and CAH CoP Changes for Emergency Services and Patient Transfers

[07/02/25]

Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Following United States v. Skrmetti

[06/24/25]

HHS and CMS Rescind Guidance on Emergency Reproductive Health Care Under EMTALA

[06/09/25]

As Executive Branch Scrutiny of DEI Programs Intensifies, Companies Must Assess All Aspects of Their Policies and Business Practices to Ensure Compliance with Civil Rights Laws

[06/05/25]

CMMI’s New Strategy: What’s Changing for Providers?

[05/21/25]

Gender-Affirming Care Litigation Update

[04/18/25]

Executive Order Restricting Gender-Affirming Care for Minors: Litigation Update and Analysis

[03/13/25]

OIG Releases Report Calling for Additional Oversight of Remote Patient Monitoring

[10/18/24]

CMS Releases Final Rule: Transforming Episode Accountability Model

[09/05/24]

Final Rule Implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act Is Effective

[07/08/24]

U.S. Supreme Court Issues Ruling Rejecting Challenge to Mifepristone Access

[06/18/24]

CMS Announces Proposed Rule: Transforming Episode Accountability Model “TEAM”

[05/10/24]

CMS Releases New Guidance Regarding Informed Consent for Sensitive Exams

[04/16/24]

Alabama’s Supreme Court Rules that Frozen Embryos Are Children Under State Law

[03/05/24]

Federal Court of Appeals Panel Issues Ruling in Litigation Challenging FDA Approval of Mifepristone

[08/31/23]

CMMI Requests Input on Upcoming Mandatory Episode-Based Payment Model

[07/25/23]

The End Is Near – Stark Law Blanket Waivers Set to Terminate May 11

[02/20/23]

FDA Expands Access to Mifepristone: Next Steps for Providers and Retail Pharmacies

[02/07/23]

Michigan Proposal 22-3 (on “Reproductive Freedom”): What It Says and What It Might Mean

[10/25/22]

Indiana Abortion Law Injunction Limited in Scope

[09/22/22]

HHS and CMS Release Guidance on Emergency Reproductive Health Care Under EMTALA

[07/26/22]

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health: What It Does and What Health Care Providers Should Do Next

[06/27/22]

REACHing Beyond the Direct Contracting Model: CMS Announces the New ACO REACH Model Application Period

[03/03/22]

CMS Issues Surveyor Guidance for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Interim Final Rule

[01/05/22]

Winning the COVID-19 Vaccine Lottery: OIG Weighs in on Anti-Kickback Implications of COVID-19 Vaccine Incentive Programs

[07/07/21]

Indiana’s New Advance Directives Law

[07/01/21]

New Grant Funding Available from the CDC for Plans to Address Social Determinants of Health

[05/26/21]

Be Prepared: CMS Resumes Hospital Survey Activities

[04/01/21]

Acute Care Hospitals Are Becoming More Frequent Targets of IJ Citations

[02/24/21]

The Finish Line Is Here: New Stark and Anti-Kickback Regulations Take Effect Today

[01/19/21]

Defining Opportunity in the Sprint to Value: CMS and OIG Finalize Value-Based Definitions in Connection with New Stark Exceptions and Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors

[01/12/21]

Physician Arrangements Must “Pass Go” Under the Stark Law’s New Bright-Line Compensation Rules

[12/30/20]

Important Information for COVID-19 Vaccine Providers

[12/15/20]

CMS Announces Geographic Direct Contracting Model

[12/14/20]

Overview of Legal and Practical Considerations for Employers Concerning COVID-19 Vaccination Policies

[12/10/20]

Sprinting Toward Value: OIG Overhauls Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors to Benefit Patients and Providers

[12/07/20]

The Sprint to Value: CMS Transforms the Stark Law

[12/04/20]

CMS Accepting Waiver Applications to Permit Hospital Care at Home

[11/30/20]

CMS Finalizes New Mandatory Payment Model for ESRD Treatments

[10/19/20]

CMS Finalizes New Mandatory Radiation Oncology Payment Model

[09/29/20]

CMS Announces CHART Model to Transform Rural Health Care

[09/15/20]

New York Federal District Court Blocks HHS’s Roll-Back of Certain Sex-Based Discrimination Protections in Health Care; Other Provisions Effective 8/18/2020

[08/21/20]

HHS Posts Section 1557 Final Rule and Walks Back Sex-Based Discrimination Protections: Enter Bostock v Clayton County Bd. of Commissioners

[06/19/20]

CMS Proposes Major Overhaul to Incorporate Payer Pricing into Medicare Cost Report Data and MS-DRG System

[05/19/20]

CMS Explains Stark Waivers – Consider Any Needed Action Now

[04/24/20]

CMS Recommendations on Reopening Health Care Facilities for Non-Emergent, Non-COVID-19 Care

[04/21/20]

CMS Proposed Rule Extends and Revises Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Program

[02/26/20]

DOJ Probe of Pharmaceutical Companies Implicates Patient Assistance Programs

[12/10/19]

Discharge Planning: Key Takeaways from the Long-Awaited Final Rule

[10/02/19]

What’s in Store for the CCBHC Pilot Program? Congress Hastens to Fund Program that Expands Access to Behavioral Health and Addiction Services (Part 2)

[09/27/19]

What’s in Store for the CCBHC Pilot Program? Congress Hastens to Fund Program that Expands Access to Behavioral Health and Addiction Services

[09/20/19]

Evaluating Ligature Risk Prevention Requirements and Regulations: The Challenges of Protecting Patients Without Restricting Access

[07/22/19]

CMS Proposed Mandatory Payment Models for Radiation Oncology and ESRD

[07/22/19]

Episode-Based Bundled Payment Models Poised to Make a Comeback

[11/16/18]

CMS Seeks Input on Stark Law Changes to Accelerate the Shift to Value-Based Care

[06/22/18]

OIG Approves Gainsharing Arrangement for Surgical Procedures

[01/18/18]

"Medicare Shifts Its Stance on Total Knees," Outpatient Surgery Magazine (January 2018).

OIG Rescission of 2006 Advisory Opinion: An Important Compliance Reminder

[12/11/17]

CMS Removes Total Knee Replacement from Inpatient-Only List 

[11/28/17]

CMS Issues Reporting Requirements, Advanced Alternative Payment Model Instructions for Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model

[10/03/17]

CMS Proposes Significant Changes to the CJR Model and the Cancellation of the AMI, CABG and SHFFT Episode Payment Models

[08/16/17]

CMS Publishes Final Rule Further Delaying Bundled Payment Programs

[05/19/17]

CMS Delays Expansion of Bundled Payment Programs

[03/21/17]

CMS Issues Final Rule for New Bundled Payment Models

[01/18/17]

CMS Final Rule Establishes Significant Changes to Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model

[01/18/17]

CMS Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for New Bundled Payment Models

[08/09/16]

CMS Bundled Payment Proposed Rule Details Changes to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model

[08/09/16]

AHRQ Issues Guidance for Patient Safety Organizations on Patient Safety Work Product and External Reporting Obligations

[07/01/16]

Joint Commission Ends Ban on Physicians Texting Patient Orders

[05/24/16]

CMS Extends Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative Through 2018

[04/21/16]

CMS Issues Final Rule on Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement

[11/23/15]

Final Rule Related to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model

[11/17/15]

"The Beginning of Mandatory Bundled Payment Programs: CMS' Proposed Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model," AHLA Hospitals & Health Systems Rx (November 2015).

FDA Delays Enforcement of Dispensers’ Drug Product Tracing Obligations Until November 1, 2015

[07/01/15]

Indiana Pharmacists Not Subject to Private Lawsuits for Refusal to Fulfill Prescriptions

[02/12/15]

Additional Guidance on the Premium Support Conundrum

[06/16/14]

QHPs, FAQs, Sebelius-Grassley Face-Off and the Louisiana Blues: An Update

[03/05/14]

Interpretive Guidelines for Hospital Anesthesia Services – Revision Redux!

[02/18/11]