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On April 7, the Internal Revenue Service \(IRS\) released draft instructions for theredesigned Form 990 released in December 2007. The final Form 990 contains a core form and 16 related schedules, including Schedule H-Hospitals, designated solely for taxexempt hospitals. Except for the required…
CMS today issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\) proposed rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2009
Memorandum in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment in Alameda County Medical Center v. Leavitt
To date compliance requirements for hospitals and other healthcare facilities has not yet been promulgated by the NIMS Integration Center. A draft NIMS Compliance Expectations for Hospitals has been devised and is in the final stages of approval. Once approved over the next 45 days, the new NIMS…
Union Organizing in Hospitals: A Preliminary Look at AHA Survey DataIn April 2007, the American Hospital Association \(AHA\) began to formally collectdata from member hospitals about union organizing.
President Bush today in his fiscal year 2008 federal budget proposed cutting 5.8 billion over the next five years from Medicare and 5.7 billion from Medicaid. A detailed breakdown of the impact on the Medicare and Medicaid programs is available on the AHA.org web site.
On March 28, information about patients' experience of hospital care from the HCAHPS survey will be shared publicly for the first time on the Hospital Quality Alliance's \(HQA\) Web site, Hospital Compare. Health care consumers highly value information about patients' perceptions of their hospital…
The AHA and other hospital organizations today asked a federal court to prevent the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from implementing a regulation that would restrict how states fund their Medicaid programs and pay public hospitals
This member advisory highlights the types of inpatient claims that were targeted during the RAC demonstration and some strategies and tools your organization can implement to minimize the impact of future RAC audits.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published the long-term care hospital \(LTCH\) proposed rule for rate year \(RY\) 2009 in the January 29 Federal Register.