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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services March 30 issued a final rule addressing how third-party payments are treated when calculating the hospital-specific limitation on Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today proposed delaying the effective date for its final rule implementing significant changes to the requirements for home health agencies that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs from July 13, 2017 to Jan.
An experimental DNA vaccine to protect against disease caused by Zika infection has advanced to a larger study in humans, which will further evaluate the vaccine’s safety and immune response as well as optimal dosing, the National Institutes of Health announced today. Initial findings…
About 1.6% of U.S. adults reported using heroin at some point in their life when surveyed in 2012-2013, with 0.7% meeting the criteria for a heroin use disorder, according to a study published online this week by JAMA Psychiatry. That’s up from 0.3% and 0.2%, respectively, in 2001-2002,…
The Organ Donation and Transplantation Alliance has launched a new informational series focused on organ, eye and tissue donation topics relevant to senior health care leaders. To view the first resource in the Hospital C-Suite Snapshot Series, visit https://organdonationalliance.org/csuite. The…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a final rule addressing how third-party payments are treated when calculating the hospital-specific limitation on Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments.
The AHA today urged further study before the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission votes on a recommendation that Congress implement a unified post-acute care (PAC) prospective payment system (PPS) by 2021.
The AHA today urged further study before the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission votes on a recommendation that Congress implement a unified post-acute care prospective payment system by 2021. “We appreciate the thoughtful work MedPAC has completed thus far on PAC PPS issues,” wrote…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will exercise enforcement discretion until May 30 with respect to new data reporting requirements for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests paid under the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule.
President Trump yesterday issued an executive order establishing a commission to study the scope and effectiveness of the federal response to drug addiction and the opioid crisis, and make recommendations to him for improving the response. The executive order calls for the commission to submit…