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12/05/2024
CMS Issues Final Reminder on Program Year 2023 Open Payments Data
In June 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published Program Year 2023 Open Payments data along with updated and newly submitted data from previous program years. The Program Year 2023 records are available for review and dispute in the Open Payments system through December 31, 2024. Covered recipient review of the data is voluntary, but strongly encouraged. If you believe any records attributed to you are inaccurate or incomplete in any way, you may initiate a dispute and work with the reporting entity to reach a resolution. To dispute records from earlier years that are no longer available within the Open Payments system, you must contact the reporting entity directly. CMS does not mediate or facilitate disputes; it is up to the reporting entity and covered recipient to work together to reach a dispute resolution.
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Governor’s Work Group on Competency Restoration and Diversion
Recommendations to increase access to state psychiatric hospitals
Yesterday, Governor DeWine and Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) Director LeeAnne Cornyn released the final recommendations of the Governor’s Work Group on Competency Restoration and Diversion. The recommendations aim to free up more beds in the state’s psychiatric hospitals, while also expanding local options for mental health treatment and support across Ohio.
Read More >11/20/2024
DEA, HHS issue third extension of pandemic telehealth prescribing flexibilities
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in concert with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued a third extension of COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities for the prescribing of controlled medications, to be effective through December 31, 2025.
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