Advisory

AHA Advisories provide urgent information for AHA members and the health care field, and actions they may need to take.

On April 13, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released its fiscal year \(FY\) 2008 proposed rule for the hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\).
In the February 1 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services\(CMS\) published proposed changes to its direct graduate medical education \(DGME\) and indirect medical education \(IME\) payment policies related to the amount of time residents can spend in non-hospital settings…
On February 2, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) publishedproposed revisions to the Medicare wage index occupational mix survey to beused from July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008.
On January 18, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) issued its long-expected proposal to carry out some of the 2.2 billion in administrative savings submitted by the administration last February in its budget plan for fiscal year 2007.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) on September 29 released a final notice that included the fiscal year \(FY\) 2007 hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\) final wage indices and payment rates