Medicare
CMS published in the Nov. 13 Federal Register the final rule for calendar year (CY) 2015 with changes to the Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS) and other revisions under Medicare Part B. Without additional congressional action, CMS estimates that Medicare physician payments will decline by a…
We are truly dismayed to see that despite the numerous legal defects that we identified in these audits, the OIG has proceeded to issue at least four new audit reports using extrapolation in the last month that include many of the same flaws.
Comparison of Final 2015 OPPS Addendum B With October 2014 Addendum B
Comparison of Final 2015 OPPS Addendum A with October 2014 Addendum A
CMS published in the Nov. 6 Federal Register the end-stage renal disease prospective payment system (PPS) final rule for calendar year 2015.
Signed into law on Oct. 6, the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 expands the reporting requirements for post-acute care (PAC) providers.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is pleased to support H.R. 5481, the Flexibility in Health IT Reporting (Flex-IT) Act of 2014. Your legislation requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to make a necessary adjustment to how it implements the Medicare and Medicaid…
The recently released EHR Meaningful Use in 2014 Flexibility regulation addressed challenges in FY 2014. However, for hospitals, the challenges will remain in place at the start of FY 2015 (Oct. 1, 2014), when hospitals will be expected to meet all of the program requirements for the entire fiscal…