Medicare

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a notice with comment period  that the agency believes provides additional justification for the 0.2 percent cut to hospitals’ inpatient payments made in conjunction with the agency’s implementation of the “two-midnight policy.” The…
The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to allow a wider variety of documentation to support a critical access hospital’s necessary provider designation, consistent with its past policies. “We are concerned that CMS’s recently articulated requirements around the…
Late November 16, CMS finalized a new payment model that bundles payment to acute care hospitals for hip and knee replacement surgery -- the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model.
AHA comments to CMS request for information on the implementation of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System and alternative payment models.
CMS is proposing changes to its CMS-Hierarchical Condition Category risk adjustment model.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General today finalized waivers from fraud and abuse rules for Accountable Care Organizations participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.