Medicare

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is accepting comments through Aug. 11 on whether to establish a national Medicare coverage policy for monoclonal antibodies to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
The AHA and other national hospital organizations today urged Senate leadership and senators supporting a bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure agreement reached with President Biden last week not to extend the 2% mandatory sequestration cut to Medicare or use unspent COVID-19 provider relief…
AHA's comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ hospital inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2022.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission issued its June report to Congress on refinements to Medicare payment systems and issues affecting the Medicare program, which includes recommendations approved by the commission in April.
Medicare will pay about $75 per dose to administer COVID-19 vaccines in a Medicare beneficiary’s home, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.
The American Hospital Association comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2022.
AHA's comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ fiscal year (FY) 2022 proposed rule on the IRF prospective payment system (PPS).
The Government Accountability Office this week appointed two new members to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and reappointed four current members.
The mission of each and every hospital in America is to serve the health care needs of the people in its community 24 hours a day, seven days a week. But, hospitals’ work is made more difficult by our fragmented health care system — a system that leaves millions of people unable to afford the…