Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS)
On April 13, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released its fiscal year \(FY\) 2008 proposed rule for the hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\).
President Bush's proposed fiscal year 2008 budget proposes major reductions to the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Released this morning, the budget includes more than 0 billion in Medicare cuts to hospital services alone, including cuts to the inpatient and outpatient updates, rehabilitation…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) yesterday released the rate year \(RY\) 2008 proposed rule for the long-term care hospital \(LTCH\) prospective payment system \(PPS\).
In the February 1 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) on September 29 released a final notice that included the fiscal year \(FY\) 2007 hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\) final wage indices and payment rates
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Coding Advice on ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS
AHA Central Office serves as the U.S. clearinghouse for issues related to the use of ICD-9-CM, ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS and certain HCPCS codes.
On April 12, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released its proposed rule for the fiscal year \(FY\) 2007 hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\). CMS proposes some of the most significant changes to the system since its implementation in 1983.
CMS published in the May 18 Federal Register a proposed rule with changes to the fiscal year \(FY\) 2005 hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\). This rule is one of the most complicated and lengthy ever released by the agency.
On March 8, CMS released the proposed fiscal year \(FY\) 2005 occupational mix public use file \(PUF\), which contains survey data submitted from acute care hospitals on the occupational mix of their employees. Since this data will be used to adjust Medicare hospital payments across geographic…