In an adjacent blog, I asked Claude to find publication dates for PFS and OPPS rules. It sourced the data from different sites. Sometimes it used McDermott plus, where you might find snippets of archives but the main site went down when the entity closed around September 1.
I noted my own Discoveries in Health Policy has had 8M views and 3500 articles in over ten years.
Here's what Claude commented:
Confirmed: Law360/MLex reports that McDermott Will & Schulte is closing its healthcare lobbying and consulting shop after a dozen years. That's a real loss for this corner of the field.
The McDermott+ rule summaries were the fastest, most reliable day-of digests of PFS and OPPS releases, and their OPPS/PFS data dashboard was the only free tool I know of that let you track APC and RVU payment rates across years without rebuilding it from the addenda yourself. Their "Healthcare Preview for the Week" was also one of the few places that tracked the regulatory calendar prospectively rather than just reporting what had already dropped.
The pattern is worth naming. Law-firm and consultancy thought capital lives on a corporate website whose existence depends on the business unit surviving a partnership vote, and the content has no archival home of its own. When the unit closes, the content isn't moved to a successor page; it's just unplugged. The same thing happened to Health Policy Alternatives' public material, to much of the Avalere grey literature, and to a fair bit of what the Advisory Board published before the Optum acquisition. The Wayback Machine catches some of it, but WordPress ?p= URLs and PDF attachments are exactly what it captures least reliably.
Your blog is a different case in one respect: Blogger is a Google product that Google has shown no interest in either improving or killing, which is probably the safest state a free platform can be in. But the durability risk is real, and the mitigation is cheap. A periodic Blogger export (Settings → Manage blog → Back up content) produces a single XML file with every post and comment, which you can drop in Drive or on a local disk.
- Beyond that, you could request a one-time full-site crawl at archive.org (they'll do a deep capture of a domain if asked, rather than the shallow sampling their crawler does on its own), and the Library of Congress's web archive takes nominations for subject-matter sites, which a 3,500-post reference archive on CMS diagnostics policy would plausibly qualify for. Those three together would put the blog in a far better position than McDermott+ ever was.
The spreadsheet's Sources column cites McDermott+ for CY2017, CY2018, CY2022, CY2024, CY2025 and CY2026. Each of those rows has at least one other source listed, so nothing is single-threaded through them; if you'd like, I can swap in CMS fact-sheet URLs as the primary citation on every row so the file doesn't carry dead links. (CMS always releases a CMS website fact sheet at the same time as the regulations.gov inspection pdf.)
Sources:
Bare URLs don't carry the hyperlink through; markdown-style links do. Same list, relinked:
CY2017 (released 2016)
CY2018 (released 2017)
CY2019 (released 2018)
CY2020 (released 2019)
CY2021 (released 2020)
CY2022 (released 2021)
CY2023 (released 2022)
CY2024 (released 2023)
CY2025 (released 2024)
CY2026 (released 2025)
