Prior to the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), CMS required hospitals to comply with a number of exacting payment and documentation rules in order to include as part of their graduate medical education (GME) and...more
From the early 1980s until the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the number of long-term acute care hospitals (LTCHs) expanded many fold. Addressing this growth, Congress, in enacting the Medicare, Medicaid and...more
On the first of this month, President Obama signed into law the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014. The measure extends a multitude of provisions that were set to expire and also incorporates many provisions that may...more