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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nov. 1 issued a final rule updating physician fee schedule (PFS) payments for calendar year (CY) 2020. The rule also includes several policies implementing year four of the quality payment program (QPP) created by the Medicare Access and CHIP…
AHA members can watch a replay of today’s Town Hall webcast featuring Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma. AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and Verma discussed two proposed rules released last week to modernize the Stark Law and Anti-kickback Statute.
Including Surprise Medical Bills, Medicaid DSH Cuts and Site-neutral Payments Engage your senators and representative while they are home the next two weeks Members of Congress are in their home districts and states for the next two weeks, and it is an excellent opportunity to talk with your…
The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) recently finalized revisions to general chapter (Pharmaceutical Compounding and Sterile Preparations). In addition, USP in 2016 finalized a new general chapter, (Hazardous Drugs Handling in Healthcare Settings). Both general chapters have widespread…
Use AHA model letter to submit your comments to CMS by Sept. 27 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in its hospital outpatient prospective payment system proposed rule for calendar year 2020 proposes to require that hospitals publicly post on the internet a machine-readable file…
With Congress back in town and a full slate of health care issues on its agenda, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack, Executive Vice President Tom Nickels and Senior Associate Director of Federal Relations Priscilla Ross hosted a special AHA Town Hall webcast live from the AHA’s Advocacy Day in…
With Congress back in town and a full slate of health care issues on its agenda, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack, Executive Vice President Tom Nickels and Senior Associate Director of Federal Relations Priscilla Ross hosted a special AHA Town Hall webcast live from the AHA’s Advocacy Day in…
Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 requires that, with the exception of emergency department (ED) services,1 services furnished in off-campus provider-based departments (PBDs) that began billing under the outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) on or after Nov. 2, 2015 (referred…