On Friday, April 11, 2025, CMS issued its annual Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS) Proposed Rule for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 (the Proposed...more
4/22/2025
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On December 17, 2021, CMS issued a final rule implementing three changes to Medicare’s payment rules for graduate medical education that Congress enacted last year in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA). The final...more
On November 2, 2021, CMS published the final rule to update the payment policies and rates for services furnished under the Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Payment...more
On March 31, 2021, Judge Carl Nichols of the United Stated District Court for the District of Columbia issued a decision upholding CMS’s denial of reimbursement to a California Critical Access Hospital (CAH) for compensation...more
On August 2, 2019, CMS issued its annual Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System Final Rule for FY 2020 (the Final Rule). Highlights include...more
8/9/2019
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