Welcome to your daily briefing on healthcare developments in Delaware. Today we're covering 9 key stories including updates on delaware healthcare headlines, delaware healthcare updates, background & context. Let's dive in.
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The Department of Health and Social Services Library has launched a LibGuides page providing information about DHSS.
This centralized guide helps DE healthcare professionals quickly access DHSS resources, policies, and services that directly impact their practice in the state.
The Delaware Professional Regulation Online System (DELPROS) provides an online license verification tool to look up professional licenses.
Healthcare professionals in DE can quickly verify credentials of colleagues, confirm their own license status, or validate practitioner qualifications before referrals or hiring decisions.
Delaware Health Force has made Delaware CMS provider data available through its website.
This resource gives Delaware healthcare professionals direct access to federal provider data specific to the state for benchmarking and operational planning.
The U.S. Trade Administration has updated its resource guide for American exporters of healthcare technologies, equipment, and services targeting the German market.
DE healthcare technology companies and service providers exploring international expansion can leverage this guide to navigate regulatory and commercial pathways into one of Europe's largest healthcare markets.
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The Delaware Department of Health and Social Services maintains a Medicaid provider portal for search and services/information.
Healthcare professionals in DE need direct access to Medicaid provider resources for claims, eligibility verification, and compliance with state program requirements.
The source provides CMS contact information for Medicare provider and supplier enrollment in Delaware.
Delaware healthcare professionals need accurate CMS enrollment contacts to maintain Medicare billing privileges and avoid payment disruptions.
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Covered entities must annually recertify their 340B eligibility through HRSA. Missing the recertification window pushes the entity to inactive status, which means immediate loss of 340B pricing and potentially diversion violations on previously dispensed drugs. Reinstatement requires a new application.
The discount value of 340B pricing for a covered entity often exceeds six figures annually. Letting the recertification lapse for paperwork reasons is one of the most expensive administrative errors in the regulation.
A vendor is a business associate if they create, receive, maintain, or transmit PHI on behalf of the covered entity. They are NOT a business associate just because they happen to be in a building with PHI or could conceivably access it. The functional test matters, not the proximity test.
Forcing BAA execution on vendors who do not meet the functional test creates contractual bloat and weakens the negotiating position with vendors who actually do. Failing to execute BAAs with true business associates exposes the covered entity to OCR enforcement.
The MIPS cost performance category is calculated retrospectively by CMS using attributed Medicare claims; clinicians cannot directly affect what is attributed. The two attribution methods (TPCC and MSPB) capture different beneficiary cohorts. Practices that try to "manage" cost without understanding which patients are attributed to which clinician typically waste effort.
Cost is now 30% of the MIPS final score — the largest single category. Misunderstanding attribution is the leading cause of unfavorable payment adjustments in the next cycle.
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