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Month: July 2021

Upsetting the Natural Order: Administration Targets Hospital Consolidation

Upsetting the Natural Order: Administration Targets Hospital Consolidation

July 14, 2021 One of the leading theories meant to explain the formation of celestial bodies, such as stars, planets and moons, postulates that particles of mass and dust created by a primordial explosion, i.e., “Big Bang,” were forced to eventually coalesce at random points in the universe due to gravitational effects. There was a consolidation of smaller-mass objects that ultimately formed larger-mass objects. The end result of this conceptualized model seems to have worked out pretty well—at least for…

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No Surprise Act Interim Final Rule: Some Questions Get Answered

No Surprise Act Interim Final Rule: Some Questions Get Answered

July 7, 2021 On July 1, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Labor, and the Department of the Treasury released an interim final rule (IFR) that acted to flesh out some of the provisions of the No Surprises Act (NSA), scheduled to go into effect next year. Entitled “Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part I,” the IFR provides further details concerning the implementation of the NSA we did not have previously, but also promises…

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