Medicare

Passed by the Senate on March 31, President Obama is expected to sign into law the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ambiguous policy regarding observation stays leaves hospitals in an untenable position, the AHA said in a friend-of-the-court brief filed yesterday in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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…