Medicare
The New York Times editorial on proposed Medicare cuts to off-campus hospital outpatient departments (March 26) fails to reflect the significant differences between hospitals, independent physician offices and other sites of care.
AHA Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Maryjane Wurth today participated on a panel as part of the University of Miami School of Business Administration's conference on “The Business of Health Care: Technology & People: U.S. & Beyond.”
AHA provides input to CMS regarding potential future changes to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hospital overall star ratings system.
AHA expressed support for legislation that would permanently extend the enforcement moratorium on direct supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services provided in critical access hospitals and small, rural hospitals.
On March 4, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published proposed rules that would promote patient access to health information in Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP),…
The American Hospital Association urges the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to use its upcoming proposed rules for IRFs and other post-acute care providers to address several issues related to the implementation of the revised case-mix grouping policies.
Bipartisan bills were recently introduced in both chambers of Congress to help alleviate the critical shortage of physicians. The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019 (S. 348/H.R. 1763) would add 3,000 Medicare-funded residency slots each fiscal year for the next five years, at least…
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Friday released its March report to Congress.
In the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ 2019 physician fee schedule final rule, the agency made an important change to the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule that will require many hospitals to report private payer rates for clinical laboratory services covered under the CLFS.
Policymakers have noted an upward shift in the intensity of services provided to fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare beneficiaries in hospital emergency departments (EDs), as reflected in the level of evaluation and management (E/M) visits coded. This report examines a number of factors contributing to…