Advisory
In 2000, the Federal Communications Commission \(FCC\) dedicated a portion of the radio spectrum for wireless medical telemetry devices such as wireless heart, blood pressure and respiratory monitors. The creation of the Wireless Medical Telemetry Service \(WMTS\) was a direct result of advocacy…
CMS published in the May 12 Federal Register the long-term care hospital prospective payment system \(LTCH PPS\) final rule for rate year 2007, which begins July 1, 2006. AHA remains concerned that the final regulation still cuts payments by 7.1 percent.
As part of the Administration's efforts to make hospital pricing more transparent, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) today released information on Medicare payments for 30 common procedures aggregated by county. This advisory was prepared to alert you to the CMS release.
On April 12, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released its proposed rule for the fiscal year \(FY\) 2007 hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\). CMS proposes some of the most significant changes to the system since its implementation in 1983.