Advisory
AHA Advisories provide urgent information for AHA members and the health care field, and actions they may need to take.
On August 11, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published in the Federal Register its skilled nursing facility \(SNF\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) final rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2010.
In the August 27 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published its final rule for the hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\) which includes long-term care hospital \(LTCH\) PPS provisions.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published in the August 7 Federal Register the inpatient rehabilitation facility \(IRF\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) final rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2010.
On July 31, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released its fiscal year 2010 final rule for the hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\), which made significant improvements over the proposed rule.
In November 1999 the Institute of Medicine \(IOM\) released its landmark report, To Err is Human, which estimated that as many as 98,000 people die each year in hospitals because of preventable medical harm.
CMS proposed changes to the hospital cost report in the July 2 Federal Register. The proposed modifications affect reporting of contract labor and benefit costs, uncompensated care data, and medical supply and device costs, among other items.
This regulatory advisory examines CMS' outpatient prospective payment system \(OPPS\) and ambulatory surgical center \(ASC\) proposed rule for calendar year \(CY\) 2010. We encourage CEOs to share this advisory with their senior management team and use our spreadsheets to model the impact of the…
On Tuesday, July 14, House leaders introduced the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 \(H.R. 3200\). The ")tri-committee") health care reform bill is the product of the chairmen of three key House committees: Ways & Means, Energy & Commerce and Education & Labor.