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The AHA today took aim at coding guidelines for the inpatient rehabilitation facility’s “60% Rule” presumptive compliance test and quality reporting provisions in comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed IRF prospective payment system rule for…
Commenting on the fiscal year 2017 proposed rule for the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system, the AHA today encouraged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to fully consider refinements recommended by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission as it works to develop a new…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week issued an interim plan for responding to locally acquired cases of Zika virus infection in the continental U.S. and Hawaii. As of June 15, only travel-associated cases have been reported in the continental U.S., including three…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today issued a final rule revising the Medicare payment system for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests paid under the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule and implementing other changes required by section 216 of the Protecting Access to…
The AHA today voiced support for a number of provisions in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year 2017, but concern with the rule’s proposed documentation and coding reduction, changes to disproportionate…
The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to rescind the “25% Rule” in its proposed rule for long-term care hospitals in fiscal year 2017, which may “reduce access and payment for the very patients who the Congress has deemed appropriate for LTCH-level…
Hospital representatives are invited to learn more about recent policy activities impacting the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor program and review results from the AHA's latest RACTrac survey during a webinar June 28 at 2 p.m. ET.
The Supreme Court today said the False Claims Act is not “an all-purpose antifraud statute” or “a vehicle for punishing garden-variety breaches of contract or regulatory violations.” In a decision in Universal Health Services Inc. v. United States and Massachusetts ex…
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today urged the U.S. Department of Justice to block the proposed merger of Anthem and Cigna. "When it comes to the Anthem and Cigna merger, bigger is not better for California's consumers or the health insurance market," said Jones.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday released its June report to Congress, which annually looks at issues affecting the Medicare program and health care delivery and services.