Advisory
AHA Regulatory Advisory: MEDICARE PHYSICIAN FEE SCHEDULE PROPOSED RULE FOR CY 2012
AHA Regulatory Advisory: Home Health PPS: The Proposed Rule For CY 2012
AHA Regulatory Advisory: Medicare Outpatient PPS and ASCL Proposed Rule for CY 2012
On June 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule with changes to the physician electronic prescribing (e-Prescribing) Incentive Program.
On June 6, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) issued a final ruleoutlining its planned implementation of non-payment for Medicaid healthcare-associated conditions.
The Department of Health and Human Services' \(HHS\) Office for Civil Rights issued in the May 31 Federal Register a proposed rule to modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 \(HIPAA\) privacy rule's provisions related to accounting of disclosures.
This Regulatory Advisory examines CMS' May 4 proposed rule to revise the Medicare and Medicaid Conditions of Participation \(CoP\) to require hospitals of all types to offer all inpatients and outpatients an annual influenza vaccination unless vaccination is medically contraindicated or the patient…
On April 29, the CMS released a final regulation for the new hospital value-based purchasing \(VBP\) program. The final rule, which affects inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\) hospitals was published in the May 6 Federal Register. Major provisions of the rule are described in this advisory…