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Month: April 2021

Sequestration Cuts Postponed to 2022

Sequestration Cuts Postponed to 2022

SPECIAL ALERT: Sequestration Cuts Postponed to 2022 April 19, 2021 On Friday, April 16, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the two-percent sequestration cut in Medicare fee for service (FFS) payments to providers, scheduled to commence April 1, 2021, has officially been pushed back to January 1, 2022. A recent Medicare Learning Network (MLN) article provided some background on the sequestration implementation schedule. It stated, in pertinent part: The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security…

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COVID in 2021: Current Impact and Future Concerns

COVID in 2021: Current Impact and Future Concerns

April 14, 2021 No pandemic lasts forever. I’m sure those in the Middle Ages must have thought that there would never be an end to the Black Death, but it eventually subsided after seven years. Many in the early twentieth century no doubt believed that the Spanish flu would keep visiting tragedy upon much of the world; but, after two years, it, too, was eventually vanquished. We can only hope, then, that whatever this current pandemic entails, it is not…

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