While you were occupied with COVID response, the federal agencies responsible for regulating health care providers and payors have been busy. Erin Eiselein and Anna-Liisa Mullis will provide an update on new or revised rules impacting providers and payors for 2021.
Highlights include:
- The new interoperability rules (data access/CURES Act).
- Changes to Part 2 regulations and to the Part 2 authorizing law in the CARES Act.
- Litigation over the changes to the Section 1557 definition under the ACA (including removal of health care protections for transgender individuals).
- Executive orders on drug pricing.
- Status of court challenge to hospital price transparency rule.
- The D.C. Circuit ruling on the site of service changes.
- The delay on final Stark regulations until August 2021.