Nursing Home Compare Quarterly Refresh with SNF QRP Data Now Available
From CMS:
The January 2019 Nursing Home
Compare Refresh, including quality measure results based on SNF QRP data
submitted to CMS, is now available.
The updated SNF quality...
Update to Posting of Hospital Charges
In a Jan. 17 tweet by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Administrator Seema Verma, asking for the Twitterverse to "help us make...
The Trustee Quarterly- Winter Edition 2019
The South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations (SDAHO), with sponsorship from the South Dakota Office of Rural Health, now offers a variety of resources...
Inpatient/Outpatient- Dimensions Database Annual Meeting
The Inpatient
and Outpatient (IPOP)/Dimensions Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 7,
2019 from 10 a.m.–2:00p.m. CST at the Hilton
Garden Inn South Sioux Falls. Lunch will...
CMS launches new Medicare app
CMS PRESS RELEASE 1/28/2019
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a new app that gives consumers a modernized Medicare experience with...
2019 Federal Poverty Guidelines Issued
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services poverty guidelines for 2019 have been released and are effective as of Jan. 11. Publication of...
MedPAC Releases Recommendations to Congress
At the January meeting, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended that Congress increase the rate for hospital inpatient and outpatient prospective...
CMS Webinar on Part D Payment Modernization Model Overview
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMS) is hosting a webinar to providing an overview of the Part D Payment Modernization Model. CMS...
CMS hosts VBID model Webinar Jan 30
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMS Innovation Center) is hosting a webinar Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 1 p.m. EST, which will...
Joint Committee on Appropriations Update
The Joint Committee on Appropriations is currently listening to agencies that have a smaller percentage of expenses of the budget. Week 3 budgets included...
