💰Proposed Medicare and Medicaid Payment Policies for CY 2026
This major proposed rule addresses: changes to the physician fee schedule (PFS); other changes to Medicare Part B payment policies to ensure that payment systems are updated to reflect changes in medical practice, relative value of services, and changes in the statute; codification of establishment of new policies for: the Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate Program under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022; the Ambulatory Specialty Model; updates to the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program expanded model; updates to drugs and biological products paid under Part B; Medicare Shared Savings Program requirements; updates to the Quality Payment Program; updates to policies for Rural Health Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers update to the Ambulance Fee Schedule regulations; codification of the Inflation Reduction Act and Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 provisions; updates to the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program.
Learn More📡FCC Hearing on C-Band Reimbursement Claims Impacting Businesses
In this document, the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB or Bureau) grants Anuvu Licensing Holdings, LLC's Petition for De Novo Review (Anuvu) and commences a hearing in connection with the 3.7-4.2 GHz Band (C-band) Transition Relocation Payment Clearinghouse's (RPC or clearinghouse) decision which denied Anuvu's cost reimbursement claims as they relate to its Raisting, Germany site. The issues designated for hearing are whether Anuvu met its burden of proof to demonstrate that the RPC erred in its finding that the claims were not compensable in- so-far as they relate to the Raisting site, which is located outside the United States; whether the RPC properly applied Commission guidance to the claims in question; and whether the disallowed amount of $960,694.35 should be reimbursed to Anuvu.
Learn More💰Update on FY 2025 Reimbursement for Uranium and Thorium Sites
This Notice announces the Department of Energy's (DOE) acceptance of claims in FY 2025 from eligible uranium and thorium processing site licensees for reimbursement under Title X of the Energy Policy Act of 1992. The FY 2025 DOE Office of Environmental Management's Congressional Budget Request included $5 million for the Title X Uranium and Thorium Reimbursement Program; however, the Congressional appropriation for FY 2025 is zero dollars ($0.00). Thus, the claims received in FY 2024 and claims received in FY 2025 cannot be reimbursed until there is a new appropriation from Congress.
Learn More🏥Medicare and Medicaid Home Health Payment System Updates
The Department of Health and Human Services has proposed updates to the Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS), which includes rate adjustments and new requirements for quality reporting and value-based purchasing. Additional updates pertain to the Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies Competitive Bidding Program, influencing provider enrollment and compliance with new Medicare and Medicaid policies.
Learn More🏥DHA Terminates Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Demonstration
This notice is to advise interested parties of the termination of the DHA's Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Demonstration. On November 9, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule announcing the termination of the original Medicare HHVBP Model one year early for home health agencies (HHAs) in the nine original model states. This serves as formal notice that DHA also terminated the HHVBP demonstration applicable in the original nine model states. Due to the limited time this demonstration was active, there was insufficient data to draft a report detailing findings.
Learn More🏥Medicare Payment Systems Corrections and Their Impact on Hospitals
This document corrects technical and typographical errors in the proposed rule that appeared in the April 30, 2025 Federal Register titled "Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2026 Rates; Requirements for Quality Programs; and Other Policy Changes".
Learn More🏥Notice on Camp Lejeune Program Medical Expenses Reimbursement
Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of a currently approved collection, and allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice.
Learn More✈️Impact of Revised Non-Foreign Overseas Per Diem Rates on Businesses
Defense Human Resources Activity publishes this Civilian Personnel Per Diem Bulletin Number 328. Bulletin Number 328 lists current per diem rates prescribed for reimbursement of subsistence expenses while on official Government travel to Alaska, Hawaii, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the possessions of the United States. The Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 lodging rate review for Guam, American Samoa, Midway Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, and Wake Island resulted in rate changes for multiple locations. The meal rate for Wake Island was also updated during this review.
Learn More🏥Medicare's Public Meeting on New Clinical Lab Test Codes for 2026
This notice announces a public meeting to receive comments and recommendations (including data on which recommendations are based) on the appropriate basis for establishing payment amounts for new or substantially revised Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System codes being considered for Medicare payment under the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule for calendar year 2026. This meeting also provides a forum for those who submitted certain reconsideration requests regarding final determinations made last year on new test codes and for the public to provide comment on the requests.
Learn More💼Proposed Updates to Terrorism Victim Expense Reimbursement Program
The Office for Victims of Crime ("OVC") of the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs ("OJP"), proposes this rule to amend the program regulations for the International Terrorism Victim Expense Reimbursement Program ("ITVERP"), to streamline program operation, more expressly reflect certain policy and procedures adopted by OVC since it began administering the program in 2006, and to adjust cost category caps.
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