Advisory
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DOD RELEASES TRICARE OPPS FINAL RULE
The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 contained new electronic prescribing \(eRx\) incentives that offer a 2 percent additional payment for outpatient physician eRx in 2009. The Medicare physician fee schedule final rule for 2009, published in the November 19 Federal…
On October 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released the outpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\) and ambulatory surgical center \(ASC\) final rule for calendar year 2009.
Recent attention in the media has refocused the public's attention on executivecompensation. With this renewed interest, it is critical that your hospital isprepared to respond to public and media inquiries around the compensation ofyour top executives.
On October 3, President Bush signed into law a large financial rescue package that included mental health parity legislation \(H.R. 1424\).
On August 15, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released a proposed rule to modify the medical data code set standards and adopt ICD-10-CM for coding of patient diagnoses and ICD-10-PCS for coding of hospital procedures.
Standardizing the colors of the wristbands used in hospitals is the sensible approach to improving patient safety, and many state hospital associations have already engaged their hospitals in this effort. As the national advocate for America's hospitals, the AHA is asking all hospitals to consider…