Medicare
The agency today extended for another six months its moratoria on enrollment of new Medicare home health agencies and and on new Part B non-emergency ground ambulance suppliers in certain states.
Critical access hospitals that did not achieve meaningful use in the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program for the 2016 reporting period or receive a hardship exception will see their Medicare payments reduced to 100% of their reasonable costs in fiscal year 2018.
The AHA yesterday shared with the Department of Health and Human Services its recommendations for promoting competition and choice in the health care system.
Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HAC) Penalty Calculator FY 2017
Inpatient PPS Final Rule
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The Medicare program would continue largely without disruption during a short-term lapse in appropriations if Congress fails to continue funding the federal government before the current funding expires tonight.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday announced additional special enrollment periods for Medicare and the federally-facilitated health insurance exchange for eligible individuals affected by the 2017 hurricanes in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
National hospital organizations, including the AHA, today urged Congress to include in the short-term continuing resolution under consideration this week a two-year delay in Medicaid disproportionate share hospital cuts.
AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed rule outlining 2019 contract year policy and technical changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit programs.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday recommended that Congress increase Medicare base payment rates for hospital inpatient and outpatient services by 1.25% in 2019, as provided under current law. In other voting, the commission recommended that the Health and Human Services Secretary…