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15 Aug 2013, 10:00 pm
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services attempts to make sure prospective residents and their loved ones know how to choose a nursing home. [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 3:54 pm
On August 2, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") published its highly anticipated 2014 Inpatient Prospective Payment System ("IPPS") Final Rule (the "2014 IPPS Final Rule"). [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 7:43 pm by Jon Gelman
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released a revised list of contacts for Workers' Compensation Set-Aside Contacts. [read post]
9 Aug 2013, 3:18 pm by Jon Gelman
Jason Mitchell the director of the Center for Health IT at the American Academy for Family Physicians.The Sunshine Act requires drug companies and medical device makers to report payments, gifts and investments to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. [read post]
9 Aug 2013, 3:56 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
During a hearing titled, 'The Status of the Affordable Care Act Implementation,' the committee questioned representatives from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Internal Revenue Service responsible for implimenting the ACA. [read post]
7 Aug 2013, 8:06 am
On August 2, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") released its much-anticipated final rules, CMS-1455-F and CMS-1599-F, finalizing two previously issued proposals that addressed payment policies related to patient status in short-stay hospital cases: (1) payment of Medicare Part B inpatient services; and (2) admission and medical review criteria for payment of hospital inpatient services under Medicare… [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 6:03 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Report Highlights Concerns About Security Of Sensitive Personal Information Americans Will Share With HHS Exchange Portal AS HHS Invites Consumers To Set Up Personal Accounts The reported finding that the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has yet to complete the necessary security arrangements and testing for the web-portal Incomplete security arrangements and testing necessary to ensure the security of personal health and other information shared by consumers… [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 4:03 pm
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) billing requirements are too restrictive with regard to changing a beneficiary's status from inpatient to outpatient after discharge. 3. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 9:57 am
On August 2, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") issued its highly anticipated 2014 inpatient prospective payment system ("IPPS") Final Rule (the "Final Rule"). [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 5:58 am by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
” – McKnight’s –  “A Medicare payment rate update will increase aggregate skilled nursing facility reimbursements by $470 million during fiscal year 2014, according to a final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 2:37 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Citing “industry concerns,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has abandoned at least temporarily its May 31 request to change Section 15.13 of its Program Integrity Manual chapter to require the denial of enrollment applications when the requesting provider or its owner had an overpayment of $1500 or more which was not repaid at the time it submitted its application. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 1:55 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Medicare payments to inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs) will rise by 2.3% for fiscal year (FY) 2014 under the final Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System (PPS) Updated for Fiscal Year Beginning October 1, 2013 (FY 2013) posted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 29 here. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 1:55 pm
Still, about 1 in 5 of about 500 participating hospitals voluntarily reports some data to the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. [read post]
1 Aug 2013, 3:38 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Medicare payments to inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs) will rise by 2.3% for fiscal year (FY) 2014 under the final Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System (PPS) Updated for Fiscal Year Beginning October 1, 2013 (FY 2013) posted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 29 here. [read post]
1 Aug 2013, 3:38 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Medicare payments to inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs) will rise by 2.3% for fiscal year (FY) 2014 under the final Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System (PPS) Updated for Fiscal Year Beginning October 1, 2013 (FY 2013) posted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 29 here. [read post]
1 Aug 2013, 2:40 pm
In 2005, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid started the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program in three pilot states, where the program recovered over $900 million dollars during the three-year pilot. [read post]
1 Aug 2013, 9:50 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday (July 31, 2013) published its final Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2014 Final Rule (Rule). [read post]
1 Aug 2013, 2:00 am by thehealthlawfirm
., The Health Law Firm On July 16, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a press release summarizing the performance results for the first year of the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) … Continue reading → [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 4:38 pm by Jon Gelman
Its findings, which underscore several years of complaints that the distinction between an inpatient and observation stay isn't always clear, come just days before the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is expected to issue final regulations intended to address the problem.Those rules, proposed in April, would assume that patients who stay two nights or longer in the hospital are inpatients. [read post]