Proposed Rules

• Medicare Program; FY 2019 Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System and Quality Reporting Updates for Fiscal Year Beginning October 1, 2018 (FY 2019)

  

• Medicare Program; Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2019

  

• Medicare Program; FY 2019 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update and Hospice Quality Reporting Requirements

  

• Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) Proposed Rule for FY 2019, SNF Value-Based Purchasing Program, and SNF Quality Reporting Program

  

• Medicaid Program; Methods for Assuring Access to Covered Medicaid Services-Exemptions for States With High Managed Care Penetration Rates and Rate Reduction Threshold

  

• Request for Information: Revisions to Personnel Regulations, Proficiency Testing Referral, Histocompatibility Regulations and Fee Regulations Under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA)

  

• Medicare Program Contract Year 2019 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage, Medicare Cost Plan, Medicare Fee-For-Service, the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs, and the PACE Program; Correction

  

• Possession, Use, and Transfer of Select Agents and Toxins; Addition of Certain Influenza Virus Strains to the List of Select Agents and Toxins

  

• General Hospital and Personal Use Devices; Reclassification of Sharps Needle Destruction Device

  

• Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2019

  

• Administrative Simplification: Certification of Compliance for Health Plans; Withdrawal

  

• Medicare Program; Part B Drug Payment Model; Withdrawal

  

• Medicare Program; Establishment of Special Payment Provisions and Requirements for Qualified Practitioners and Qualified Suppliers of Prosthetics and Custom-Fabricated Orthotics; Withdrawal

  

• Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Revisions to Certain Patients Rights Conditions for Participation and Conditions for Coverage; Withdrawal

  

• Medicaid Program; State Disproportionate Share Hospital Allotment Reductions

  

• Medicare Program; Cancellation of Advancing Care Coordination Through Episode Payment and Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Models; Changes to Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Payment Model (CMS-5524-P)

  

• Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs

  

• World Trade Center Health Program; Petitions 016 and 017-Parkinsons Disease and Parkinsonism, Including Manganese-Induced Parkinsonism; Finding of Insufficient Evidence

  

• Medicare Program; CY 2018 Updates to the Quality Payment Program

  

• Reducing Regulatory Burdens Imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act & Improving Healthcare Choices To Empower Patients