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Health Care Week in Review July 18, 2025

Health Care Week in Review | Congress Passes Recissions Package, CMS Releases CY 2026 PFS and OPPS Proposed Rules

This week, Congress passed the Recissions Act of 2025, cutting nearly $8B in global aid, and CMS released CY 2026 PFS and OPPS proposed rules outlining Medicare payment rates for physicians and hospital outpatient department services for 2026.

Advisories October 27, 2023

Health Care Advisory: Is Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Reform on the Horizon?

The decreasing value of Medicare reimbursements for physicians has caught the attention of a group of doctors in Congress. Our Heath Care Group explains how draft legislation would stabilize the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) before patients lose access to health care.

Health Care Week in Review April 7, 2023

Health Care Week in Review: CMS Issues Proposed and Final Rules and NIH Releases a Cancer Plan

This week, CMS proposed four major facility payment rules and issued the Medicare Advantage Part D Final Rule. Plus, NIH released a National Cancer Plan to reduce cancer deaths and advance treatments. Read more about these actions and other news below.

Healthy Byte November 29, 2022

Healthy Byte: CMS Finalizes Rules for Remote Therapeutic Monitoring for 2023

Tania Khan and Sean Sullivan discuss CMS’s release of its 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule for CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring.

Healthy Byte September 2, 2021

Healthy Byte: CMS’s Telehealth Updates in the 2022 Proposed Physician Fee Schedule

Sean Sullivan and Brian Lee discuss two important proposed changes affecting telehealth Medicare benefits for patients needing mental health treatment.