As part of its proposed inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) rule for FY 2014, CMS introduced a new standard for determining whether an inpatient admission to an acute care hospital is appropriate. Specifically, CMS...more
5/17/2013
- CMS Healthcare Medicare Medicare Part B Physicians
CMS recently proposed rules [PDF] in response to President Obama’s directive to government agencies, Executive Order 13563, to reduce outmoded or unnecessarily burdensome rules. CMS estimates that the changes in the rules...more
3/7/2013
- Barack Obama CMS Executive Orders Healthcare
In recently released decisions, the PRRB and the CMS Administrator addressed a number of issues of interest to many providers. Short summaries of those decisions are provided below. ...more
12/14/2012
- CMS FTEs GME IME Medicaid Medicare SNF
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia once again upheld the decision of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to deny reimbursement for Medicare bad debts associated with copayments...more
12/5/2012
- HHS Medicaid Medicare
In a suit recently filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the American Hospital Association (AHA) and several hospitals, assert that the Medicare Program improperly denied payment to hospitals...more
11/16/2012
