In light of the COVID-19 public health emergency ending, CMS also included an update to the new COVID-19 treatments add-on payment. The agency said in the proposed rule that discharges involving eligible products would continue to get the add-on payment through Sept. ...
Additionally, the FY 2021 IPPS final rule will add a MS-DRG for administering Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies, as well as 24 new technology add-on payments for eligible new and relatively high-cost technologies. The rule will also expand the add-on payment ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its final rule updating the Home Health Agencies (HHA) payment rates and policies for the calendar year (CY) 2025 Home Health prospective payment system (PPS). CMS estimates a 2.7% increase, but when combined with the behavioral offset...
CMS's final FY 2021 inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system rule went into effect for discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2020.
typographical and technical errors in the final rule that appeared in the June 17, 2024, Federal Register, entitled, “Medicare Program; Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program; Health Information Technology Standards and Implementation Specifications.” The effective date of the final rule was July ...
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...
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according to thefinal rulefor the SNF Prospective Payment System in FY 2022. The payment bump includes a $411 million increase from an update to payment rates, which CMS set at 1.2 percent next year. However, CMS estimated in the final rule that SNFs would lose out on a...
The proposed rule also included a 5 percent cap on IPF PPS wage index decreases to ease IPF payment instability. CMS stated that an IPF’s wage index for FY 2023 and following years would not be less than 95 percent of its final wage index calculated in the prior fiscal ...