2026 Issue Briefs

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- CMS Finalizes Fiscal Year IPPS 2027 Update (8/4/26)
- CMS Finalizes Fiscal Year 2027 Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities Prospective Payment System Update (7/31/26)
- CMS Finalizes Fiscal Year 2027 Hospice Prospective Payment System Update (7/31/26)
- CMS Finalizes Fiscal Year 2027 Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System – Rate Update (7/30/26)
- CMS Finalizes Fiscal Year 2027 PPS Skilled Nursing Facility Update and Quality Reporting Program Requirements (7/30/26)
- CMS Updates to the Master List of Items Potentially Subject to Face-To-Face Encounter and Written Order Prior to Delivery (7/29/26)
- CMS Proposes Medicaid Indirect Hold Harmless Threshold of Health Care-Related Taxes (7/22/26)
- CMS Issues CY 2027 Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (7/19/26)
- CMS Releases Proposed Rule Updating CY 2027 OPPS (7/5/26)
- CMS Releases Proposed CY 2027 HH PPS Update (7/3/26)
- CMS Releases CY 2027 Proposed ESRD PPS Update (6/25/26)
- CMS Releasing Final Rule Regarding Oversight of Accrediting Organizations and Preventing AO Conflicts of Interest, and Related Provisions (6/14/26)
- CMS Releasing Proposed Rule Codifying Drug Price Negotiation (6/13/26)
- CMS Releasing Medicaid Community Engagement Requirements (6/2/26)
- CMS Releasing Final Alternative Payment Model Updates and Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model (6/1/26)
- Federal Independent Dispute Resolution Operations Final Rule (5/29/26)
- CMS Proposes Medicaid Managed Care State Directed Payments and Fee-for-Service Practitioner Payments (5/22/26)
- CMS Issues Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2027; and Basic Health Program (5/20/26)
- CMS Announces Two Nationwide Temporary Moratoria on Enrollment of Home Health Agencies (HHAs) and Hospices (5/13/26)
- CMS Proposes 2028 Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Quality Measure Set (4/29/26)
- CMS Proposes Interoperability Standards and Prior Authorization for Drugs (4/14/26)
- CMS Proposes Fiscal Year PPS 2027 IPPS Update (4/13/26)
- CMS Issues Medicare Advantage Organizations Calendar Year (CY) 2027 Capitation Rates; and Part C and Part D Payment Policies (4/7/26)
- CMS Finalizing Contract Year 2027 Medicare Advantage and Part D Technical Changes (4/6/26)
- CMS Proposes Fiscal Year PPS 2027 Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Update (4/5/26)
- CMS Proposes Fiscal Year 2027 PPS Skilled Nursing Facility Update and Quality Reporting Program Requirements (4/4/26)
- CMS Proposes Fiscal Year 2027 PPS Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Updates (4/3/26)
- CMS Proposes Fiscal Year 2027 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update and Quality Reporting Program Requirements (4/2/26)
- CMS Issues Final Administrative Simplification Rule (3/21/26)
- CMS Issues Correction Rule to CY 2026 MPFS Final Rule (3/11/26)
- CMS Issues Correction Rule to CY 2026 OPPS Final Rule (2/20/26)
- CMS Proposing Rule Regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2027; and Basic Health Program (2/11/26)
- CMS Is Finalizing Medicaid Health Care-Related Tax Loophole (1/30/26)
- CMS Proposing Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) Conditions for Coverage Revisions (1/28/26)
- CMS Posts Calendar Year (CY) 2027 Advance Notice for Medicare Advantage (MA); Capitation Rates; and Part C and Part D Payment Policies (1/28/26)