Medicaid

The AHA and Federation of American Hospitals on Dec. 23 urged the Supreme Court to affirm a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding the right of health care providers to take states to court when they fail to live up to their payment obligations under the Medicaid Act.
CMS published in the Dec. 27 Federal Register a proposed rule that would establish emergency preparedness conditions of participation (CoPs) and conditions for coverage (CfCs) that hospitals, critical access hospitals and 15 other provider and supplier types would have to meet in order to…
In the Sept. 18 Federal Register, CMS published its final rule on the methodology for reducing federal Medicaid DSH allotments to states by an aggregate of $500 million in fiscal year 2014 and $600 million in FY 2015, as required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.