On July 31, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule entitled,Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities; Updates to the Quality Reporting Program and Value-Based Purchasing Program for Federal Fiscal Year ...
In its FY2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS) final rule, CMS introduced PRO quality reporting measures for certain THA and TKA patients, establishing two voluntary reporting periods...
IPPS Final Rule: CMS Addresses Allina Decision and Addresses New Medicare DSH Payment CalculationsThomas W. Coons
CMS released the calendar year (CY) 2023 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System Final Rule.
In the CY 2023 OPPS/ASC Final Rule, CMS established a policy to make a single blended payment for devices and services in Category B investigational device exemption (IDE) studies to preserve the scientific validity of these studies. This policy involves creating or revising HCPCS codes to de...
CMS indicated in its final IPPS rule for 2023 that it would change its rule and correct its flawed GME calculations retroactively for open cost reporting periods.[15] Likewise, the agency announced a separate fix to the payment errors caused by its outpatient pr...
In an email on Friday, CMS said that it will not offer MIPS facility-based scoring because the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS)/Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS) Final Rule finalized the suppression of several measures...
Have questions about the proposed rule? Get in Touch On April 27, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released itsProposed 2022 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospitalrule. Comments on the proposed changes may be submitted by June 28, 2021. ...
Based on massive computing of the two-dimensional OTSU thresholding, the Adaptive Genetic Algorithm (AGA), including robustness and parallelity, is then used to search for the best non-linear vector of two-dimensional threshold. A number of experiments are made and the application result proves ...
CMS implemented sweeping changes to its inpatient admission coverage standards and documentation requirements through the implementation of the Two Midnight Rule in the FY 2014 IPPS Final Rule (CMS 1599-R), effective October 1, 2013. One of those changes involved specific inpatient admission order req...