Medicaid

As required by law, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released its Spring 2025 Semiannual Report to Congress, covering October 1, 2024, to [...]

Feldesman Partners Gabriel García and Jacki Leifer will present at the 2025 Annual Conference and Health Care Provider Retreat, co-hosted by the New Mexico Primary Care Association and New Mexico Health Resources, [...]

Key Challenges Still Loom for Covered Entities On Monday, May 12, the White House issued an Executive Order (EO) aimed at addressing  prescription drug prices. The EO opens with a remarkable [...]

Feldesman Partners Susannah Vance Gopalan and Carrie Riley will present at the National Council for Mental Health Wellbeing’s NatCon25, taking place May 5–7, 2025, in Philadelphia, PA. Ms. Gopalan will speak during [...]

Feldesman Partners Kathy Ghiladi and Susannah Gopalan will speak at the American Health Law Association’s Medicare and Medicaid Institute taking place March 26 - 28 in Baltimore, MD.  Ms. Gopalan will share [...]

Yesterday, the Executive Order titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders” may have upended a 1998 interpretation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), commonly known as [...]

Twelve-Year Litigation Put to Bed The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) paid $38 million to settle a whistleblower-initiated—aka “qui tam”—False Claims Act (FCA) suit earlier this month, ending more than a [...]

One of the comprehensive funding bills for the federal government enacted in recent weeks, the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2024 (Pub. L. No. 118-122), contains a provision that creates a permanent State plan [...]

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently issued updated guidance on implementing Prospective Payment Systems (PPS) for Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs). This revised CMS guidance aligns with [...]

Today the Supreme Court upheld long-standing precedent that protects the right to file suit in federal court against State and local agencies whose practices violate rights supplied by the U.S. Constitution and [...]