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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today issued its proposed rule for the physician fee schedule for calendar year 2017. After application of the 0.5% payment increase required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 and other budget neutrality cuts, CMS…
The House Ways and Means Committee today approved AHA-supported legislation (H.R. 5613) to extend through calendar year 2016 the enforcement delay on direct supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services provided in critical access hospitals and rural prospective payment system…
The AHA, Association of American Medical Colleges, America’s Essential Hospitals, and Federation of American Hospitals today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to share additional information with hospitals and the public about how accurately its overall hospital quality star…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today suspended changes to its billing process for Partial Hospitalization Program services that were scheduled to begin July 1. The changes to the agency’s Integrated Outpatient Code Editor would have enforced the program’s minimum…
The Federal Trade Commission yesterday dropped its administrative challenge to a proposed merger between Cabell Huntington Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Center in Huntington, WV, citing state approval of a cooperative agreement between the hospitals and a new state law on hospital…
A House Appropriations subcommittee today approved by voice vote legislation that would provide $161.6 billion in discretionary funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and related agencies in fiscal year 2017.
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a hearing on draft legislation that would create a new state option in Medicaid to provide a health home for medically complex children.
The AHA July 7 and three other national hospital groups called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to examine the “serious flaws” in the agency’s hospital quality “star ratings” methodology.
“Our continued review of the limited information available to us has raised serious…
Hospitals with different issues and concerns find something they like in the House-passed Helping Hospitals to Improve Patient Care Act, H.R. 5273 – and hope the Senate will make consideration of the bill a priority. But an abbreviated election-year legislative calendar could possibly push…
The AHA Wednesday expressed “extreme dismay” with the provisions for new off-campus hospital outpatient departments contained in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) outpatient prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule for 2017.