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20 Jun 2015, 8:40 pm by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
  The Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) seeks to inform providers that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has revised State Operations Manual Appendix J to reflect current standards of practice. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 2:26 pm
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released Comparative Billing Reports (CBRs) to Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) providers. [read post]
On Wednesday, October 28, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), with the Departments of Treasury and Labor, issued a fourth interim final rule (“IFR”) with comment period addressing the public health emergency (“PHE”). [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 11:55 am by Vicky G. Gormanly
On September 3, 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a Proposed Rule withdrawing certain provisions of the July 17, 2007 AMP Final Rule, and withdrawing the October 7, 2008 Final Rule defining “Multiple Source Drug. [read post]
9 Jan 2014, 10:02 am
Claims of liens by Medicare (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and/or the Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Contractor (MSPRC)), Medicare Part C providers (Medicare Advantage Plans), Departments of Social Services, and subrogation recovery contractors for ERISA governed plans and policies are perhaps the most misunderstood and confusing aspects of the case resolution process. [read post]
3 Oct 2013, 5:39 am by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
” – McKnight’s –  “The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has decided to ease guidelines concerning auditors’ requests for additional documentation. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 7:00 am by Michael A. Brusca
A recent article details a new program launched by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) called the “Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes” in order to address the problem of over medication of the elderly suffering from dementia in long term care. [read post]
10 Jun 2020, 11:29 am by Patrick A. Malone
As the Covid-19 pandemic has put huge stresses on medical systems around the globe, the strains have taken their toll:  The credibility and authority — of federal agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and elite professional journals like the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine — have taken big… [read post]
5 Feb 2014, 2:46 pm
On January 10, 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed significant changes to the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit (Part D) Program. [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 6:00 am by Kit Case
Today’s post was shared by Jon L Gelman and comes from workers-compensation.blogspot.com The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is readying a fraud prevention initiative that removes Social Security Numbers (SSN) from Medicare cards to help combat identity theft and safeguard taxpayer dollars. [read post]
3 Apr 2013, 8:34 am by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
–  A message about MDS 3.0: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has received several inquiries regarding coding MDS 3.0 item G0110: Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Assistance, Column 1: Self Performance. [read post]
15 Jul 2023, 6:56 pm by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
Since 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued three National Coverage Determinations that mandate shared decision making with patient decision aids. [read post]
2 Jun 2009, 12:12 pm
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)' Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program will begin to send requests for medical records to hospitals as early as this week. [read post]
17 Feb 2013, 11:43 pm by Debra A. McCurdy
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule on February 7, 2013 that it estimates would save health care providers $676 million annually by streamlining unnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome regulations and making reforms to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA). [read post]
17 Jan 2014, 7:44 am
In a memorandum to Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals ("OMHA") applicants, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") announced that it will temporarily suspend the assignment of new requests for Administrative Law Judge ("ALJ") hearings for two years. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 8:28 am by Lisa Baird
Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released final regulations under the physician self-referral law known as the Stark Law. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 5:00 am by Ray Mullman
McKnight's had an article about thenew GAO Report showing that The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services need to make serious improvements in the tools it uses to evaluate the quality of nursing home care. [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 6:16 am by David Dirr
In the spring of this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed rules governing Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) participating in the CMS Shared Savings Program. [read post]
22 Jul 2013, 12:35 pm
On July 9, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the 2014 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule (CMS -1601-P). [read post]
5 Mar 2013, 12:02 pm by Lisa Baird
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the long-awaited Final Rule to implement the “Sunshine” provisions of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). [read post]