Administrative Simplification

CMS Bundles Prior-Authorization and Gender-Care Assurances Into a Fast-Track Medicaid Paperwork Notice

CMS is asking for comments by October 9 on five Medicaid and CHIP information collections packaged under its expedited “generic” clearance process.

CMS proposes removing a coding prerequisite from Medicare’s drug pass-through application

CMS is proposing a small but concrete paperwork change for applicants seeking transitional pass-through payment for new drugs, biologicals, and…

Administrative Simplification

CMS bundles Medicaid prior-authorization assurances with four other state templates—and opens a short comment window

CMS is asking for public comment by October 9 on five Medicaid and CHIP information collections, including a new state-plan template tied to the 2024…

Administrative Simplification

FDA Keeps Its Medical-Device Quality Program Private—and Largely Unchanged

FDA is asking the Office of Management and Budget to renew the paperwork authority for its Voluntary Improvement Program, the agency’s third-party…

Administrative Simplification

CMS Bundles Prior-Authorization Compliance and New Medicaid Templates Into a “Generic” Paperwork Notice

CMS is taking comments through October 9 on five Medicaid and CHIP information collections, including a new state-plan template tied to federal…

Administrative Simplification

CMS Is Turning Medicaid Prior-Authorization Rules Into State-Plan Paperwork

CMS will publish a Federal Register notice on September 25 seeking comment on five Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program information…

Physician Payment

VA Is Splitting One Reimbursement Form Into Two for Veterans’ Drug, Medical, and Transportation Claims

The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to retire a single catch-all reimbursement form and replace it with two forms—one for prescription drugs and…

Privacy and Security

CMS is building the privacy rails for its Nurses for Nursing Homes program

CMS is scheduled to publish a new Privacy Act system-of-records notice on August 20 for the Nurses for Nursing Homes Program, a workforce initiative tied…

Privacy and Security

VA updates the privacy map for its patient medical records system

The Department of Veterans Affairs is updating the formal Privacy Act notice for "Patient Medical Records-VA," the system behind treatment, payment…

Administrative Simplification

CMS Puts Medicaid Drug Rebates and Managed Care Oversight Back on the Paperwork Clock

CMS has a new Federal Register notice queued up for June 26, and the headline is classic paperwork camouflage: “Agency Information Collection Activities…

Administrative Simplification

CMS Is Updating Its Emergency Waiver Intake System for Disasters and Cyber Incidents

CMS is asking for one more round of paperwork clearance on the system providers and state survey agencies use when emergencies knock normal health care…

AI Governance

Health Policy Signal Federal Register Surface Alerts

Metadata-only surface alert. HPS has not analyzed the rule text, legal effect, payment impact, or stakeholder implications; this is not organizational…