On July 1, 2022, CMS issued a proposed rule in which the agency proposes to update and potentially liberalize the distance rules applicable to Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) as well as procedures for monitoring the...more
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 July 19, 2021, CMS published a proposed rule to update the payment policies, payment rates and other provisions for services furnished under the Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Ambulatory...more
7/27/2021
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On April 27, 2021, CMS issued the fiscal year (FY) 2022 proposed rule for the hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective payment system (the Proposed Rule). Among...more
5/10/2021
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n November 1, 2019, CMS posted the final rule establishing the payment rates for the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Payment System for calendar year (CY) 2020...more
11/15/2019
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Section 340B
Hospitals may seek redesignation to a neighboring core-based statistical area for wage index purposes under the rules that set forth the geographic reclassification process. See 42 C.F.R. § 412.230 et seq. Those rules...more