Medicare
Passed by the Senate on March 31, President Obama is expected to sign into law the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA).
We support CMS’s goal for Medicare providers and suppliers to have comprehensive emergency preparedness plans and generally think that CMS has chosen the correct framework for the proposed Conditions of Participation (CoPs) and Conditions for Coverage (CfCs).
The American Hospital Association today announced its support for S. 2082, the Two-Midnight Rule Coordination and Improvement Act of 2014. Introduced today by Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Deb Fischer (R-NE), the legislation would delay enforcement of the Medicare inpatient admission and…
Rick Pollack urges President Obama to protect the health care promised to program beneficiaries in your fiscal year (FY) 2015 Federal Budget by not including further reductions in payments for hospital services provided to seniors and the disabled under Medicare.
The undersigned organizations write to express immediate concerns confronting our respective members’ ability to comply with the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ambiguous policy regarding observation stays leaves hospitals in an untenable position, the AHA said in a friend-of-the-court brief filed yesterday in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
America’s hospitals strongly oppose a proposal to cut funding for seniors’ Medicare to pay for an extension of the debt limit. While we do not oppose the extension of the debt limit, we do oppose using Medicare reductions to pay for non-Medicare related spending.
We are pleased that CMS has extended its enforcement moratorium on the two-midnight policy for an additional six months, as the AHA has urged.
CMS published in the Dec. 27 Federal Register a proposed rule that would establish emergency preparedness conditions of participation (CoPs) and conditions for coverage (CfCs) that hospitals, critical access hospitals and 15 other provider and supplier types would have to meet in order to…