Site Neutral Payment Update
CMS to Repay Hospitals for 2019 Reductions, More Litigation to Follow. In a partial welcome sign for [...]
CMS Finalizes Price Transparency Requirements for Hospitals
On Friday, November 15, 2019, CMS published the highly anticipated hospital price transparency final rule, originally proposed earlier this [...]
CMS Issues OPPS/MPFS Final Rules
The final CY 2020 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (“OPPS”) and Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (“MPFS”) rules have been released [...]
CMS Is Exploring A.I. Are You?
Last week, CMS issued a Request for Information to “obtain input on how the agency can better use emerging [...]
Medicare Provider Enrollment Clarification & Updates
New requirement for CAH enrollment & Demystifying Medicare’s Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) Critical Access Hospital Medicare [...]
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 Submit Claims 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 [...]
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 [...]