The Senate Passes Bill to Delay Medicare Sequestration
Modern Healthcare reports that the Senate voted to delay Medicare payment cuts for the rest of the year. The bill is expected to quickly pass through the House and be …
Modern Healthcare reports that the Senate voted to delay Medicare payment cuts for the rest of the year. The bill is expected to quickly pass through the House and be …
Yesterday CMS issued its annual Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule that includes updates on policy changes for Medicare payments under the PFS and other Medicare Part B issues, on …
As part of yesterday’s release of the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, CMS announced that the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency telehealth benefits would be made permanent. This is good …
CMS has issued its annual Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule that includes updates on policy changes for Medicare payments under the PFS and other Medicare Part B issues, on …
CMS announced new steps to increase the capacity of the American health care system to provide care to patients outside a traditional hospital setting amid a rising number of COVID-19 …
CMS is granting exceptions under certain Medicare quality reporting and value-based purchasing programs to home health agencies, hospices, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities located in …
CMS has released a list of providers and payers participating in the Primary Care First payment model. Primary Care First will begin in January 2021. There are 916 primary care …
The November 2020 quarterly refresh for the Hospice Quality Reporting Program is now available on Care Compare. Care Compare is the recently launched, streamlined redesign of eight existing CMS healthcare compare …
From CMS: “In early September, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released Care Compare on Medicare.gov, which streamlines our eight original health care compare tools. Since then, you’ve …
An Office of Inspector General (OIG) report found that Medicare improperly paid for SNF services when patients didn’t meet the Medicare 3-Day inpatient hospital stay requirement. Here is the summary …