Summary: <a href="http://complianceandethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Compliance-Perspectives-Cover-Art-1024x1024.jpg"></a><br> <a href="http://complianceandethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/turteltaub-adam-200x200-150x1501.jpg"></a><br> By Adam Turteltaub<br> adam.turteltaub@corporatecompliance.org<br> Kim Brandt is a familiar voice and face for the compliance community, having worked at both CMS and in the Senate for well over a decade. Currently she serves as the Principal Deputy Administrator for Policy and Operations at the <a href="https://www.cms.gov/">Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services</a> (CMS).<br> In this podcast she shares the latest on what CMS is doing and what compliance professionals need to consider. Listen in as she shares:<br> <br> * The emphasis on patients over paperwork<br> * CMS’s efforts to reduce the regularly burden, which has already led to a 20% decrease in new manual pages<br> * New, simplified documentation requirements<br> * Revised proof of delivery requirements<br> * How CMS is meeting the opioid epidemic<br> * A focus on targeted probes and education<br> * A new emphasis on outreach to and hearing from the provider community, including an <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/06/25/2018-13529/medicare-program-request-for-information-regarding-the-physician-self-referral-law">RFI on Stark Law</a>.<br> <br>
