Medicare
The AHA today released an updated PowerPoint slide deck to help hospital leaders, clinicians and trustees prepare for the new Medicare physician quality payment program, for which performance measurement starts in 2017 under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act.
On Nov. 18, the CMS published its final rule for calendar year 2017 with changes to the Medicare physician fee schedule and other revisions under Medicare Part B.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late this afternoon issued a final rule on the notice of benefit and payment parameters standards for health insurance issuers and the Health Insurance Marketplaces in 2018.
The AHA and nine other organizations representing physicians, hospitals, medical group practices, academic medical centers and nearly all existing accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program today submitted joint comments and recommendations for developing a new Medicare…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will partner with up to six states to test a new accountable care organization model for beneficiaries eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. CMS is accepting letters of intent from states that wish to work with the agency to design certain state-…
On Oct. 14, the CMS published a final rule implementing key provisions of the new quality payment program for physicians and other professionals mandated by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.
On Nov. 3, CMS published its calendar year (CY) 2017 final rule for the home health (HH) prospective payment system (PPS).
On Nov. 1, the CMS released the calendar year 2017 outpatient prospective payment system/ambulatory surgical center final rule.