Currently, Medicare patients that wish to receive palliative hospice care have a tough choice to make—forgo any curative treatment or incur all hospice care costs. This could change, however, with the recent launch of CMS's...more
In This Issue:
- What Providers Should Know
- Requirements for Inpatient Admissions and Payment Under Medicare Part A
- New Rules Permitting Re-billing Under Medicare Part B for Denied Admissions
- New HAC...more
On August 15, 2013, the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board ("the Board") released updated inventories and need determinations for health service areas across the State. The new need determinations reveal a...more
In response to the government’s continued focus on improving quality of care through payment policy, several changes to new and existing regulatory requirements recently came about through the 2013 Inpatient Prospective...more