Health Reform Resource Center

Ropes & Gray’s Health Reform Resource Center provides up-to-date information on health reform developments to ensure that our clients are ready for the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. We encourage you to check back regularly for updates on health reform implementation and what it means to you.  

New Implementation Developments

• Proposed Rule: Medicaid Payments for Services Furnished by Certain Primary Care Physicians and Charges for Vaccine Administration under the Vaccines for Children Program
  (May 11, 2012)
   
• Final Rule: Medicaid Program Community First Choice Option
  (May 7, 2012)
   
• Medicare and Medicaid Programs Final Rule: Changes in Provider and Supplier Enrollment, Ordering and Referring, and Documentation Requirements; and Changes in Provider Agreements 
  (April 27, 2012) – This rule supersedes an interim final rule released on May 5, 2010.
   
• CMS Announces First Accountable Care Organizations under the Medicare Shared Savings Program 
  (April 10, 2012)
   
• Additional Guidance on the Medicare Plan Selection Process for Organizations Interested in Offering Capitated Financial Alignment Demonstration Plans in 2012
  (March 29, 2012)
   
• Supreme Court Oral Argument Transcript: Medicaid 
  (March 28, 2012) 

Ropes & Gray Analysis

• Massachusetts House Lawmakers Propose Overhaul to Health Care Payment and Delivery System
  (May 9, 2012)
   
• CMS Issues Rulemakings on Inpatient Prospective Payment System, National Provider Identifier Number
  (May 7, 2012)
   
• Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Health Care Reform 
  (March 29, 2012)
   
• Early Analysis of Affordable Care Act Supreme Court Challenge: Medicaid Expansion
  (March 29, 2012)
   
• Early Analysis of Affordable Care Act Supreme Court Challenge: Severability 
  (March 28, 2012)
   
• Early Analysis of Affordable Care Act Supreme Court Challenge: The “Individual Mandate” 
  (March 27, 2012)