On July 31, 2024, CMS published a final rule updating the Medicare rates and policies applicable to inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs) under the IPF Prospective Payment System (PPS) and the IPF Quality Reporting Program...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Aug. 1, 2023, published its final rule for the federal fiscal year (FY) 2024 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective...more
On November 2, 2021, CMS put on display its final rule that, among other things, updates the home health and home infusion therapy services payment rates for calendar year (CY) 2022; makes significant changes to the provider...more
On April 27, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the 2022 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule for Acute Care Hospitals. ...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 30, no. 14 (April 12, 2021) - Doctors Care P.A., the largest urgent care provider network in South Carolina, and its management company, UCI Medical Affiliates of South Carolina Inc., will...more
On August 2, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System...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
• The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on April 23, 2019, released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule. • The proposed payment rate increase...more
On April 14, 2017, CMS issued the annual Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Rule for FY 2018 (the “Proposed Rule”) which will affect discharges on or after October 1, 2017. CMS estimates that IPPS operating...more
On August 2, 2016, CMS issued its final rule addressing new payment rates and policies under both the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and the Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System...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
CMS recently issued a proposed rule updating fiscal year (FY) 2017 Medicare payment policies and rates under the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and the long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective payment...more
I. REGULATIONS, NOTICES, & GUIDANCE - On April 21, 2016, CMS issued a proposed rule entitled, “Medicare Program: FY 2017 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update and Hospice Quality Reporting Requirements.” This...more
On July 21, 2015, CMS issued a final rule updating the fiscal year (FY) 2016 Medicare payment polices and rates under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and the Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment...more
On July 31, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule (Final Rule) updating fiscal year (FY) 2016 Medicare payment policies and rates under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS)...more