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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a notice updating the payment rates for inpatient psychiatric facilities for fiscal year 2018. CMS makes a net payment increase of 0.99%, or $45 million, compared to FY 2017. This includes a 2.6% market-basket update, offset by cuts of 0…
States may become a party to the House Republicans’ lawsuit challenging cost-sharing reduction payments because they would suffer concrete injury if the payments ended, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered yesterday. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued a final rule updating Medicare’s hospice wage index, payment rates and cap amount for fiscal year 2018. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 set the hospice market basket update at 1% for FY 2018, meaning…
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today approved President’s Trump’s nominees to serve as surgeon general and four assistant secretaries at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Project POINT – Planned Outreach, Intervention, Naloxone and Treatment – is Indianapolis-based Eskenazi Health’s response to the surge in emergency department (ED) patients who have overdosed on heroin or other opioids.
The President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis yesterday urged President Trump to declare the opioid epidemic a national emergency. “With approximately 142 Americans dying every day, America is enduring a death toll equal to September 11th every three weeks,” the…
Physician practices that served a disproportionate share of medically and socially high-risk patients in the first year of the Medicare Physician Value-Based Payment Modifier Program were more likely to receive a penalty compared with other practices, according to a study published today in the…
The AHA will host a two-part webinar Aug. 17 and 31 on how one health system is working with clinicians to prepare for the new Medicare payment system for clinicians under the Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. The webinar, featuring leaders from Providence St. Joseph’s…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued final rules for inpatient rehabilitation facilities and skilled nursing facilities for fiscal year 2018.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today issued final rules for inpatient rehabilitation facilities and skilled nursing facilities for fiscal year 2018. In accordance with the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, payment rates for both settings will be updated by…