By Adam Turteltaub

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 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

In this podcast she shares the latest on what CMS is doing and what compliance professionals need to consider. Listen in as she shares:

* The emphasis on patients over paperwork

* CMS’s efforts to reduce the regularly burden, which has already led to a 20% decrease in new manual pages

* New, simplified documentation requirements

* Revised proof of delivery requirements

* How CMS is meeting the opioid epidemic

* A focus on targeted probes and education

* A new emphasis on outreach to and hearing from the provider community, including an RFI on Stark Law.