Omnibus HHS Announces Stricter Auditing Standards for Medicare Advantage Plans On January 30, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a final rule on Medicare Advantage audit standards. In the final rule, the agency announced it will strike the fee-for-service adjuster from the risk adjustment data validation audits (RAD-VA), a tool that...
White House Announces End to COVID-19 Public Health Emergency for May 2023 On January 29, 2023, the Biden Administration announced a deadline of May 11, 2023 for ending the Public Health Emergency (PHE) that was first declared in March 2020. The official statement, which was made in the form of a letter sent to the...
ISASS Submits Request for New Diagnostic Codes for Low Back Pain On December 2, 2022, ISASS submitted a request to the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee for new ICD-10 diagnostic codes for discogenic low back pain with leg pain. The request will be reviewed in a public forum meeting in March 2023 with publication of...
Federal Trade Commission Proposes Ban on Non-complete Clauses On January 19, 2023 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a proposed rule that if finalized would ban most non-compete clauses used in employment arrangements. The American Medical Association (AMA) issued the following statement in response to the proposed rule: “The AMA appreciates the Federal Trade Commission’s...