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Special Bulletin: July 26, 2006

July 26, 2006

During deliberations of the House Rules Committee this afternoon on H.R. 4157, the Health Information Technology bill, legislators dropped the onerous provision that would have required hospitals to report to HHS the range of prices received from private payers and insurers for specified services in order to receive a full market basket update. Learn More

Special Bulletin: June 30, 2006

June 30, 2006

Medicare's proposed 2007 Inpatient PPS rule calls for hospitals to submit data on 21 quality measures for patients discharged in the first quarter of 2006 and for each succeeding quarter. Failure to submit the data will result in a reduction of 2% in the hospitals Medicare inpatient update. If this provision is not changed in the final rule, the required data for first quarter 2006 patients will be due to the QIO data warehouse on August 15 & just two weeks after the expected August 1 publication of the final rule. Learn More

Special Bulletin: June 15, 2006

June 15, 2006

Today at 5pm EST is the deadline to register for a conference call the IRS has agreed to hold with the 600 tax-exempt hospitals to whom it sent a Compliance Check Questionnaire. Learn More

Special Bulletin: June 12, 2006

June 12, 2006

At the AHA's request, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has agreed to participate in a conference call with the 600 tax-exempt hospitals that have received the Compliance Check Questionnaire the IRS recently distributed. This special call will be held Monday, June 19 from 11am until 12:30pm (Eastern time). Learn More

Special Bulletin: June 9, 2006

June 09, 2006

Comments on the Centers for Medicaid & Medicaid Services' (CMS) proposed inpatient PPS rule for 2007 are due to the agency by 5 p.m. Eastern time on Monday. Be sure to get yours in by that deadline! Learn More

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