Medicare
AHA comments on the LTCH provisions in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ fiscal year 2020 proposed rule for the inpatient and LTCH prospective payment systems.
The Fund for Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation late yesterday announced that the government will settle backlogged Medicare inpatient rehabilitation facility appeals, a central demand in the AHA’s successful litigation to tackle the overall Medicare appeals backlog.
AHA's comment on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ fiscal year 2020 proposed rule on the SNF prospective payment system.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Friday issued its June report to Congress, which includes several recommendations approved by the panel during its January and March meetings.
AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ fiscal year 2020 proposed rule for the IRF prospective payment system.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week announced changes to the timeline for state surveyors to investigate in hospitals or critical access hospitals complaints specific to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act or to deaths associated with restraint or seclusion.
An analysis by Monica Noether and Ben Stearns of Charles River Associates of White, Chapin and Christopher Whaley, “Prices Paid to Hospitals by Private Health Plans Are High Relative to Medicare and Vary Widely: Findings from an Employer-Led Transparency Initiative”.
AHA recommends CMS actions to reduce burden of clinical documentation.
The U.S. Supreme Court today affirmed a D.C. Circuit Court decision that the Department of Health and Human Services violated the Medicare Act when it changed Medicare’s reimbursement adjustment formula for disproportionate share hospitals without providing notice and opportunity to comment.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued a final rule updating Medicare and Medicaid requirements for the more than 100 Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly in 31 states, the first major update since 2006.