Outpatient Prospective Payment Systems (OPPS)
On July 16, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released the outpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\) proposed rule for calendar year 2008.
CMS published in the Nov. 10 Federal Register the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system \(OPPS\) final rule for calendar year 2006. It includes statutory changes required by the Medicare Modernization Act \(MMA\) of 2003, as well as policy changes and revisions to the Ambulatory…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published in the Nov. 10 Federal Register the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system \(OPPS\) final rule for calendar year 2006. It includes statutory changes required by the Medicare Modernization Act \(MMA\) of 2003, as…
Provisions of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act Impacting Outpatient
In the January 6 Federal Register, CMS issued an interim final rule with a comment period, implementing provisions of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 \(MMA\) that change policies and payment rates for the 2004 hospital outpatient prospective payment system…
CMS published in the November 7 Federal Register the final rule for the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system \(OPPS\) for calendar year \(CY\) 2004. In addition to statutory changes for 2004, the rule contains considerable policy changes, such as revisions to the Ambulatory…