Medicare

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

FTLF will be hosting a webinar on both CMS Notices of Proposed Rule Making on August 3 at 1 p.m. ET that will cover the developments discussed below. For more information and [...]

On February 3, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the withdrawal of three “outdated” health care antitrust policy statements that had been issued jointly by the DOJ and Federal Trade [...]

On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (CAA 2023), H.R. 2617, a comprehensive law funding government operations. For Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), the law contains [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert[1] (Alert) on July 20, 2022, to highlight areas of concern that OIG has identified in [...]

FTLF Partner Susannah Vance Gopalan, along with revenue management cycle expert Rebekah Wallace Pardeck of Achieve Revenue Management, will speak at the Louisiana Primary Care Association’s 37th Annual Continuing Education Conference. Held [...]

On July 18, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) published a proposed rule concerning changes to the Medicare home health prospective payment system for calendar year (CY) 2020 (the “CY 2020 [...]