Attorney Knicole Emanuel has an interesting blog post about DOGE and CMS. CMS has over 6,000 employees and controls $1.5 trillion in spending (just for 2024). DOGE will be looking for waste by analyzing a lot of data. This may reduce fraud, but as we have already...
Check out attorney Knicole Emanuel’s recent blog, “Defending Against Medicare and Medicaid Audits: A Guide for Healthcare Providers.” She notes that, “Recent statistics show that CMS, through its contractors, conducted over 300,000 audits in recent...
Getting surgical dressings for patients can be very difficult. The documentation required is extensive and there are a lot of rules. If you are in the Noridian jurisdiction, you might want to attend their educational webinar. The Noridian Provider Outreach and...
CMS has indeed delayed the implementation date for the Skin Substitute Grafts/ Cellular and Tissue-Based Products (CTP) for the Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Venous Leg Ulcers LCDs from 2/12/25 to 4/13/25. The policies on the CMS website are now “future...
On October 24th, the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Illinois State Medical Society (ISMS), filed a lawsuit in federal court in Chicago, seeking injunctive relief against what they termed, “a multilateral price-fixing conspiracy” with the nation’s largest...
