Advisory
The administrative simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 \(HIPAA\) call for the Secretary of Health and Human Services \(HHS\) to adopt national standard identifiers to be used by health care providers in the HIPAA transaction standards
On April 13, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released its fiscal year \(FY\) 2008 proposed rule for the hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\).
In the February 1 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services\(CMS\) published proposed changes to its direct graduate medical education \(DGME\) and indirect medical education \(IME\) payment policies related to the amount of time residents can spend in non-hospital settings…
On February 2, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) publishedproposed revisions to the Medicare wage index occupational mix survey to beused from July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008.
On January 18, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) issued its long-expected proposal to carry out some of the 2.2 billion in administrative savings submitted by the administration last February in its budget plan for fiscal year 2007.