Advisory
Member Advisory: Patient Safety Awareness Week March 11-17: Opportunity to Share Your Hospital Story
Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW) will be March 11-17. Once again, this celebration is sponsored by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), which began working together with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) last year.
On February 9, Congress passed and President Trump signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, a massive budget bill containing a number of priorities important to hospitals and health systems. In addition to funding the government until March 23, the bill also raises the debt ceiling and…
On Nov. 2, the CMS released its final rule for calendar year (CY) 2018 with changes to the Medicare physician fee schedule and other revisions under Medicare Part B.
CMS November 2 issued a final rule with comment period updating the requirements of the quality payment program for physicians and other eligible clinicians mandated by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act.
On November 1, CMS released the calendar year (CY) 2018 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS)/ambulatory surgical center (ASC) final rule; on November 2, it released the CY 2018 Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS) final rule.
On Nov. 7, the CMS published its calendar year 2018 final rule for the home health prospective payment system.