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CMS Finalizes Policies for Additional GME Slots, Organ Procurement Payment, & Decides Against Changes to 1115 Waiver Days (CMS-1752-FC3)

On the evening of December 17, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a follow-up to its final rule, Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Final Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2022 Rates,[1],[2] which addresses policies that were proposed but [...] Read More

CMS Proposes FY 2022 Payment Policies for Hospitals, Extending Add-on Payments, Adding GME Slots, and Repealing Market-Based Data Collection

On the evening of April 27, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed rule, Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Final Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2022 Rates (link), which updates the FY 2022 payment systems and [...] Read More

CMS Updates Physician Self-Referral Regulations to Reflect Medicare’s Transition Toward Value-Based Payment Systems

On November 20, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) issued a fact sheet and final rule to modernize and clarify regulations that interpret and implement the physician self-referral law. The intent of the final rule is to balance the reduction of unnecessary physician burden with the goal of removing a physician’s financial [...] Read More

Payments to Hospitals to Increase Over 3 Billion in FY 2020; Changes to Wage Index and New Technology Add-On Payments Adopted

Tweet On August 2, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final FY 2020 payment rule for hospital inpatient departments and long-term care hospitals. The rule includes the payment update for both types of facilities as well as policies for new technology add-on payments, graduate medical education, and the hospital wage [...] Read More

CMS Estimates Over $600 Million in Savings from Changes to Long Term Care Facility Requirements

On July 16, 2019, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed changes to requirements for Long Term Care facilities. Comments are due September 16, 2019. CMS proposes changes to Long Term Care (LTC) facility requirements and estimates administrative cost savings of $616 million annually over five years. As part of the Administration's [...] Read More

What If Medicaid Only Paid for Nursing Homes for People Whose Needs Couldn’t Be Met in the Community?

This afternoon, CMS issued a Request for Information (RFI) related to accelerating the provision of home and community-based services (HCBS) to Medicaid beneficiaries. To be sure, this is a noble goal, as providing health and supportive services to individuals in their homes and communities rather than an institutional setting is often not only the cost-effective […]

CMS Finalizes New Conditions of Participation for Long-Term Care Facilities; Requires Facilities to Develop Antibiotic Stewardship and Infection Control Programs

On Wednesday, September 28, 2016, CMS released a final rule updating the Conditions of Participation (CoP) for long-term care (LTC) facilities. LTC facilities affected by the release of these regulations include skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) for Medicare and nursing facilities (NFs) for Medicaid, or those facilities that are dually certified. Entities must adhere to the […]

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