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Medicare Program; FY 2027 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update and Hospice Quality Reporting Program Requirements — open the original publisher

This final rule updates the hospice wage index, payment rates, and aggregate cap amount for fiscal year 2027. This final rule also includes an analysis of Medicare non-hospice spending, including details regarding a hospice service and spending variation index, and finalizes the requirement that hospices provide the hospice election statement addendum to all Medicare beneficiaries at the time of hospice election. Additionally, this rule finalizes conforming changes to discharge from hospice care

Commission Without Commissioners: The U.S. Election Assistance Commission — open the original publisher

New EU guidance on AI transparency: what should companies be doing from 2 August 2026 — open the original publisher

New EU AI guidance sets practical expectations for labelling, deepfakes and AI-generated content transparency. In Brief Companies are increasingly using AI to create or modify content across marketing, communications and customer-facing channels. As EU transparency obligations under the AI Act move closer to application, this raises practical and operational questions around when AI-generated or AI-manipulated [...] The post New EU guidance on AI transparency: what should companies be doing from