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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday updated its guidance related to the recent announcement that Medicare audit contractors will not deny certain Part B physician fee schedule claims based solely on the specificity of the ICD-10 code for 12 months after ICD-10 implementation.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system final rule for fiscal year 2016, which will increase rates by 0.9% after accounting for inflation and other adjustments required by law.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today issued its long-term care hospital prospective payment system final rule for fiscal year 2016. The rule implements the new dual-rate payment structure for LTCHs, which will be phased in through a two-year transition that begins Oct. 1.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today released a final rule updating Medicare fee-for-service payments for inpatient rehabilitation facilities for fiscal year 2016. The rule provides an overall 1.8% update ($135 million), which includes a 2.4% market-basket update,…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today issued its inpatient psychiatric facility final rule for fiscal year 2016. The rule will increase IPF rates by 1.5% in FY 2016, after accounting for inflation and other adjustments. Specifically, the final rule includes an initial market-…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today released a final rule for Medicare hospice providers that provides a net payment update of 1.1%, or $160 million, in fiscal year 2016.
Sixteen members of Congress today asked the Federal Communications Commission to postpone its Aug. 6 consideration of technical rules that would allow unlicensed TV White Space devices to operate on the same bandwidth hospitals use for patient monitoring.
Hospitals have until Aug. 17 to review their results from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ “dry run” test of a proposed star rating system for overall hospital-level quality. The test allows hospitals to ask questions and provide feedback, which may contribute to refinements of the…
Changes in competition in the federally-facilitated Health Insurance Marketplace affected premium growth in benchmark plans between 2014 and 2015, according to a report released yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services. Premiums for the second-lowest cost silver plan grew an…
Most of the 23 Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans that provided health insurance in 2014 had not met their initial enrollment and profitability projections by the end of the year, according to a report released yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of…