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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 31 issued its fiscal year (FY) 2024 final rule for the skilled nursing facility (SNF) prospective payment system (PPS).
The LLN highlights Grady Health and its contributions to the field in the areas of patient safety and the quality of care provided to its community.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 27 issued its final rule for the inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system (PPS) for fiscal year (FY) 2024.
The AHA is deeply concerned that CMS is proposing a CY 2024 outpatient hospital payment update of only 2.8% despite persistent financial headwinds facing the hospital field.
The AHA is disappointed that CMS disregarded AHA’s and other stakeholders’ recommendations to improve the IPF PPS and IPFQR. Even though the final payment update is higher than proposed, it is still insufficient to meet the critical financial pressures faced by psychiatric facilities.
Lookup Tool: The third spreadsheet is an OPPS APC/HCPCS lookup tool that allows the user to pull-up basic descriptive and payment information for a code.
The Addendum B Spreadsheet compares relative weights and payment rates at the HCPCS level, using proposed rule Addendum B compared to 2023 Addendum B (July 1, 2023 file).
The Addendum A spreadsheet compares relative weights and payment rates at the APC level, using the 2024 proposed rule Addendum A compared to 2023 Addendum A (July 1, 2023 file), as downloaded from the CMS website.
The departments of the Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services July 25 issued a proposed rule related to the enforcement of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) of 2008.
Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate are mobilizing behind an AHA-led effort to stop impending cuts to the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) program, which are scheduled to be enacted on Oct. 1, 2023.