That document took the number of regional offices — which house HHS attorneys, OIG staff and staff from CMS and other agencies — down from 10 to four, leaving just those in Atlanta, Denver ...

CMS is developing new processes to standardize 1135 emergency ... providers and suppliers would email a summary of their request to each CMS location—previously known as CMS regional offices.

The new process, which is effective immediately, was a collaboration between CMS and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights, according to the memo.

The Office of the General Counsel (OGC), otherwise known as the legal team within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is closing six of its 10 regional offices. OGC has a national ...

"CMS Regional Offices have been making on-campus and off-campus provider-based determinations for many years, with relatively few instances where there has not been consensus as to whether a ...

A new Government Accountability Office report chides the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for lax supervision over how states set payment rates for Medicaid managed care plans. The ...

Head Start program affected by cuts. The elimination of regional HHS offices has already had an outsize impact on Head Start, a long-standing federal program that provides free child care and ...

3. ASCs cannot simultaneously enroll in Medicare as an ASC and as a hospital; ASC billing privileges will be deactivated while a center is enrolled and reimbursed as a hospital. ASCs do not need to ...

The CMS and HHS offices that coordinate efforts to eliminate health disparities are being shut down completely as part of the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal healthcare department ...

* U.S. CMS - TO ALSO ISSUE SEVERAL BLANKET WAIVERS AND THE CMS REGIONAL OFFICES WILL REVIEW OTHER PROVIDER-SPECIFIC REQUESTS * U.S. CMS - WAIVERS WILL ALLOW CMS TO TAKE SEVERAL KEY ADMINISTRATIVE ...