Medicare
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended that Congress provide a 2% market-basket update for the hospital inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems in 2021.
Commenting yesterday on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission鈥檚 draft recommendations for 2021, AHA said it supports the recommendation to provide current law market-basket updates for the hospital inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems, but urged the commission to consider a鈥
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC, or the Commission) will vote this month on payment recommendations for 2021. The 黑料正能量 Association (AHA) asks that commissioners consider the following issues that would have a significant impact on hospitals, health systems, other鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has delayed 2020 private payer data reporting for the Clinical Diagnostic Test Payment System until 2021 for tests that are not advanced diagnostic laboratory tests, as required by recent legislation extending funding for federal programs through鈥
Hospitals participating in the Medicare Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Program reduced spending for lower extremity joint replacements over three years by an average 1.6 percent more than hospitals that did not participate, with no change in quality, according to a study reported last week in鈥
AHA urges CMS to reconsider its recent guidance to providers requiring them to document Medicare-Medicaid 鈥渃rossover鈥 bad debt in a manner that is neither standard practice for most hospitals nor consistent with current accounting standards.
Less than 1% of the net electronic health record incentive payments Medicare paid to acute-care hospitals between Jan. 1, 2013 and Sept. 30, 2017 did not meet federal requirements.
By proposing a new safe harbor for patient engagement tools and creating three new safe harbors for value-based arrangements, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General has taken 鈥渢he first steps toward much needed reform鈥 of the federal anti-kickback statute and civil鈥