Medicare
On March 8, CMS issued a proposed rule to test new models for how Medicare Part B pays for prescription drugs provided in physician offices and hospital outpatient departments, and by durable medical equipment suppliers.
A recent proposal that calls for reducing the benefits of the 340B Drug Pricing Program to curb rapidly rising prescription drug costs is “misguided,” writes AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickels in an AHASTAT blog post today.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Innovation Center is accepting the second and final round of applications for its Next Generation Accountable Care Organization Model, which will begin its second performance year on Jan. 1, 2017. Participants in the model take on greater…
AHA Comments Re: Draft Measure Development Plan for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System and APM
CMS Feb. 11 issued a final rule implementing a provision in the Affordable Care Act.
CMS late Friday issued its advance notice of proposed changes to Medicare Advantage and Part D rates and payment polices for calendar year 2017.
As urged by AHA, states may immediately use alternative ways to document that a critical access hospital is a “necessary provider,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today in guidance to state survey agencies. CMS last year issued interpretive guidance that allowed only a…
The AHA has submitted comments to the Committee outlining why the site-neutral payment cuts in Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 are problematic and why Congress should reject any further site-neutral payment policies.