Providers with Multiple Service Locations Urged to Ensure Claims Data Exactly Match Enrollment Information
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will activate billing claims edits for outpatient providers with multiple service...
CMS Seeks Additional Input on Reducing Administrative Burden
This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)​ requested new and innovative ideas for reducing administrative burdens...
AHA Webinar on Draft Guidance
As a follow to a previous SDAHO story​ regarding CMS's issued draft guidance regarding co-location or space-sharing arrangements between hospitals and other...
More Than 300 Members of Congress Sign Bipartisan Letter Urging Delay of Medicaid Disproportionate...
A total of 302 members, including Rep. Dusty Johnson ​of Congress signed on to a bipartisan House letter urging...
Improvements Announced for Medicare RAC Program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced
several improvements to the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Program,
seeking to...
CMS retreats on Medicare Part D protected classes changes
Politico Pro's Sarah Karlin-Smith
CMS significantly walked back plans to let Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage plans limit coverage...
Rural Access to Hospice Act Introduced
The bipartisan Rural Access to Hospice Act (S. 1190/H.R. 2594) will fix a technical glitch to ensure seniors can...
H.R. 2573 and S. 433 Introduced to Address PDGM Concerns
The house and senate bills specifically address reforms made in the Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), a payment model...
CMS Issues Guidance on Hospital Space-Sharing Arrangements
CMS issued draft
guidance regarding co-location or space-sharing arrangements between
hospitals and other providers. The draft guidance would allow hospitals to
share...
CMS Issues Draft Guidance on Ligature Risk
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has
issued draft
revised guidance to clarify its ligature risk policies for psychiatric
hospitals...
