CMS Issues Proposed Changes for Home Health in 2020
CMS has published the proposed update for Calendar Year (CY) 2020 for Home Health Agencies. It looks like CMS [...]
Pharmacists Can Now Submit Claims for Healthcare Services in Washington and California
Credentialing with commercial payors for healthcare practitioners, including pharmacists in Washington and California, does not have to be such [...]
Price Transparency & Rate Increases: Key Points from CMS CY 2020 OPPS and MPFS Proposed Rules
On July 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued its proposed rules for the CY 2020 [...]
Texting Patient Orders and Information: What’s Permissible to Remain Compliant?
Can I text it to you? CMS Clarifies When Texting Patient Information among Healthcare Providers is Compliant In a [...]
Regulatory Compliance: Off-campus Provider-based Hospital Outpatient Departments
Tip #1: Off-campus Provider-based Hospital Outpatient Departments May Still be Good Business The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 impacted [...]
CMS Announces New Uncompensated Care Audits For 2019
CMS has pushed to broaden the data hospitals must provide to substantiate their claims for uncompensated care for several [...]
Changes To IPPS and LTCH PPS Proposed Rule
On April 24, CMS issued the FY 2019 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Acute [...]
Hospital “Provider-Based” Sites Continues to Rise
CMS is increasingly scrutinizing provider-based regulatory compliance. CMS actively seeks to remove excepted (“grandfathered”) status from off-campus sites that [...]