ICD10monitor July 8, 2024
During the last week of June, the U.S. Supreme Court unraveled the 1984 decision Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council. Chevron has been one of the most-cited decisions in American law, because it granted significant power to executive federal agencies that regulate many aspects of our lives and work.
The ruling will make it easier to challenge regulations across an array of issues, like keeping the air and water clean; ensuring that food, drugs, and consumer products are safe; Medicare coverage; and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations related to billing, coding, and the Conditions of Participation.
Legal challenges at the federal levels have relied on Chevron to defuse and dismiss challenges to regulations. According to the precedent...