Medicare
CMS late Friday issued its advance notice of proposed changes to Medicare Advantage and Part D rates and payment polices for calendar year 2017.
As urged by AHA, states may immediately use alternative ways to document that a critical access hospital is a 鈥渘ecessary provider,鈥 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today in guidance to state survey agencies. CMS last year issued interpretive guidance that allowed only a鈥
The AHA has submitted comments to the Committee outlining why the site-neutral payment cuts in Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 are problematic and why Congress should reject any further site-neutral payment policies.
The president鈥檚 fiscal year (FY) 2017 budget request for nearly $420 billion in 10-year Medicare payment cuts to providers 鈥渨ould jeopardize hospitals鈥 ability to keep the promise of maintaining access to vital health care services,鈥 the AHA said last week.
President Obama today in his fiscal year 2017 budget request to Congress proposed nearly $420 billion in reductions to Medicare payments to providers.
Today's Appeals Court decision moves the hospital field closer to getting relief for timely reviews of Medicare claims denials, which they asked for more than a year ago.
AHA recommendations regarding CMS' upcoming rulemaking for Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.
Members of Congress today introduced legislation to expand access to telehealth and remote patient monitoring services in Medicare.
Each year, the 黑料正能量 Association (AHA) collects aggregate information on the payments and costs associated with care delivered to beneficiaries of Medicare and Medicaid by U.S. hospitals. The data used to generate these numbers come from the AHA鈥檚 Annual Survey of Hospitals, which is鈥