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Cleveland Clinic will receive the AHA Equity of Care Award July 18 at the Health Forum/AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego. The award recognizes hospitals for their efforts to reduce health care disparities and advance diversity within the organization’s leadership, board and workforce. The…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today proposed changes to the Payment Error Rate Measurement and Medicaid Eligibility Quality Control programs to reflect how states adjudicate eligibility for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program under the Affordable Care Act. The…
The transitional reinsurance program coinsurance rate will be an estimated 55.1% for the 2015 benefit year, but could be raised if reinsurance contributions exceed requests for payments, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Friday. This rate is higher than the 50%…
The AHA today took aim at coding guidelines for the inpatient rehabilitation facility’s “60% Rule” presumptive compliance test and quality reporting provisions in comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed IRF prospective payment system rule for…
Commenting on the fiscal year 2017 proposed rule for the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system, the AHA today encouraged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to fully consider refinements recommended by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission as it works to develop a new…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week issued an interim plan for responding to locally acquired cases of Zika virus infection in the continental U.S. and Hawaii. As of June 15, only travel-associated cases have been reported in the continental U.S., including three…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today issued a final rule revising the Medicare payment system for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests paid under the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule and implementing other changes required by section 216 of the Protecting Access to…
The AHA today voiced support for a number of provisions in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year 2017, but concern with the rule’s proposed documentation and coding reduction, changes to disproportionate…
The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to rescind the “25% Rule” in its proposed rule for long-term care hospitals in fiscal year 2017, which may “reduce access and payment for the very patients who the Congress has deemed appropriate for LTCH-level…
Hospital representatives are invited to learn more about recent policy activities impacting the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor program and review results from the AHA's latest RACTrac survey during a webinar June 28 at 2 p.m. ET.