Medicare

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week held a Medicare Learning Network call on its new settlement option for health care providers with a low volume of appeals pending at the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals and Medicare Appeals Council.
AHA comments to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information on its draft Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement as well as ONC’s draft U.S. Core Data for Interoperability document.
The House Ways and Means Committee today held a hearing on the Department of Health and Human Services’ fiscal year 2019 budget request, at which HHS Secretary Alex Azar testified.
The budget request, which is not binding, proposes hundreds of billions of dollars in reductions to Medicare and Medicaid over 10 years.
Congress today passed and President Trump signed into law a massive two-year budget bill containing a number of priorities important to hospitals and health systems.
A recent Axios newsletter article on hospital audits conducted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of Inspector General is misleading.
Congress Feb. 9 passed a budget bill containing a number of provisions important to hospitals and health systems.
The AHA yesterday asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation to convene technical expert panels to inform and receive input from stakeholders as they develop a unified post-acute…