The Supreme Court has issued its opinion in King v. Burwell, the much-anticipated case regarding whether Affordable Care Act subsidies are available to purchasers of insurance on the Federal Exchange or whether the plain language of the Act restricted such subsidies to only those purchasing insurance through an “Exchange established…
President Obama signed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, on Thursday, April 16. The Act repeals the long complained about Sustainable Growth Rate formula for computing Medicare reimbursement rates, which had resulted in the annual “Doc Fix” legislation for the last 17 years. The Act also begins…
On June 13th, 2014 Senate Bill 670 was signed by Governor Rick Scott. The new law will change and amend several aspects of the existing law pertaining to skilled nursing facilities. The changes are of particular importance to passive investors and those indirectly involved with skilled nursing homes. From now on:…
The United States House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means Committees and the Senate Finance Committee have released bipartisan compromise legislation that would repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula for physician payments and transition Medicare towards a value-based payment system. The legislation “not only fully repeals the broken…
The obstetrics ward at a local hospital closes. Numerous obstetricians no longer deliver babies, they now only practice gynecology. Talented surgeons leave the practice to return to academic medicine. Florida medical practices trying to recruit the best and the brightest now lose out on recruits to states with a more…