Hospice providers have struggled under the 2014 Budget Control Act. The act reduced Medicare payments to hospice providers and others when the facilities failed to include specific data. The 2% cuts force health care services to work harder to receive complete...
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Medicare Reimbursements
Upcoming SCOTUS ruling could impact Medicaid
Medicare and Medicaid are the two primary government health programs that benefit many Texans at some time in their life. Medicare typically provides for elderly individuals until they need nursing home residency, but falls short when funding is needed for nursing...
CMMI’s palliative care payment model
CMMI's financial experts are still hard at work on its upcoming payment models that incorporate palliative care. Many in Texas are hopeful, although there hasn't yet been an announcement made regarding the details of a potential palliative care reimbursement model,...
What are accelerated death benefits, and how do they work?
Texas residents who have found out they are terminally ill might want to include accelerated death benefits in their life insurance policy. It’s important to know what this is and how it works. What are accelerated death benefits? An accelerated death benefit (ADB) is...
Governor’s Report to Open Texas
Governor Greg Abbott’s report on opening the State of Texas is attached in its entirety. OpenTexas-Report
Joanna Martin Accepts In-House Counsel Position
We are sad to announce that Joanna Martin will be leaving our firm. She has decided to accept an in-house counsel position. We appreciate the 9 years that Joanna spent at Kennedy Law and all of the hard work that she provided us with. Everyone at Kennedy Law wishes...
Home Health and Coronavirus Update
With the instruction to stay home for older Americans who are at greatest risk from COVID-19 issued through presidential updates, CDC, NIH, experts, home health is in a unique position to both screen, education and care for patients who are restricted to home. Many...
Mark Kennedy Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America
We are proud to announce that our very own Mark Kennedy has been chosen by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© in the fields of Health Care Law. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive...
HHS Can’t Recoup Payments from Adams EMS
Read health care law and business reporter Matt Phifer’s story on one of our preliminary injunction cases in the Southern District of Texas. The injunction prevents HHS from withholding/recouping Medicare payments from our client during the lead up to the...
How Will Medicare & Medicaid Handle Telemedicine?
Telemedicine is the wave of the future for health care. The use of technology for health concerns has risen in the past five years and is expected to grow 18.8% annually until 2025. Estimates project 7 million patients will use telemedicine services in 2018. Despite...