On April 30, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued proposed rules for the Fiscal Year 2015 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System, in which CMS announced several updates, including...more
Each year when CMS publishes its proposed changes to the IPPS Rule, it suggests a number of graduate medical education (GME) and indirect medical education (IME) reforms. This year has been no different. As part of the IPPS...more
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget recently announced new Metropolitan Areas based on revised standards and 2010 census data. If adopted by Medicare, which they typically are, these changes would affect many aspects of...more