Hospitals with dangerously low inpatient volume and micro hospitals focused primarily on the delivery of outpatient and/or emergency room services instead of inpatient services beware: CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...more
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:
- Top News
..Sebelius: No More Health Law Delays; No Enrollment Extension
..CMS Announces Innovative Hospice Care Model
- State News
..17 States and D.C. Implementing SHOP Health Insurance...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
An Illinois district court jury in United States v. Momence Meadows Nursing Center, Inc. recently issued a verdict on February 11, 2013 imposing $28.1 million in civil penalties on the operators of a nursing home. The nursing...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