In a long anticipated regulation, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently updated the hospital, critical access hospital (CAH) and home health agency (HHA) conditions of participation related to the...more
On November 3rd, CMS published the Final Prospective Payment System (PPS) Rule for Home Health Agencies (HHAs) for CY 2017 at 81 FR 76702 (Nov. 3, 2016). The rule implements annual changes to the PPS rate for HHAs and...more
McDermott’s Managing the Transition to Transformation series is designed to help health systems and other health care industry leaders address the many challenges presented by the transformation in payment and care delivery...more
On August 5th, CMS published final rules updating the Medicare payment rates for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) for FY 2017. The rules, both of which go into effect on October...more
On August 2, 2016, CMS released a final rule (Final Rule) with updates to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (Hospital IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS) affecting...more
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (“MedPAC”) met last week to discuss moving toward a unified prospective payment system for all post-acute care settings. Section 2(b)(1) of the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care...more
On November 5th, CMS published the Final PPS Rule for Home Health Agencies (HHAs) for CY 2016. The rule implements annual changes to the PPS rates for HHAs and represents the third year in a four-year rebasing of the rates....more
On November 3, 2015, CMS released a proposed rule revising existing discharge planning requirements for hospitals, critical access hospitals (CAHs) and home health agencies (HHA). CMS stated impetus for doing so is to both...more
On October 29, 2015, CMS released a Proposed Rule that would revise discharge planning requirements for hospitals. CMS released the proposed revisions in an effort to modernize the discharge planning requirements by bringing...more
CMS published the final FY2016 Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System rule on August 4, 2015. In addition to updating the overall payment rate, the new rule implements key features of the Protecting Access to...more
On July 10, 2015, CMS published the calendar year (CY) 2016 home health prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule [PDF]. While the proposed rule updates and revises certain payment rates and quality measures, it also...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its proposed update to the home health prospective payment system (HHPPS) for calendar year (CY) 2016 in the July...more
October and November 2014 have been marked by several legislative and regulatory efforts impacting the hospice and home health industries: - President Obama signed the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation...more
In this Issue: - Key Findings - Subsector Activity - Regulatory/Legal - Reimbursement - Excerpt from Key Findings: • The post-acute care (PAC) sector has seen an increase in mergers...more
President Obama signed the “Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014” or the IMPACT Act of 2014 (the Act) on October 6, 2014. The new law is broadly focused on requiring all post-acute care providers to...more