On August 1, 2023, CMS issued a final rule entitled,Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2024 Rates; Quality Programs and Medicare Promoting Interoperabilit...
September 16, 2024 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has deferred taking immediate action on its low wage index hospital policy in light of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit’s decision in Bridgeport Hospital v. Becerra. While the...
IPPS Final Rule: CMS Addresses Allina Decision and Addresses New Medicare DSH Payment CalculationsThomas W. Coons
While these procedures are not related to orthopedic practice, it is important to remain cognizant of changes to the ASC CPL on an ongoing basis, particularly as many of the procedures CMS has sought to incentivize in the outpatient setting are orthopedic...
Finally, CMS multiples the mapped MIPS cost percentile by the cost performance category weight to determine the cost performance category points. In light of the FY 2023 IPPS/ LTCH PPS Final Rule, CMS said in the 2022 Facility-Based Quick Start Guide it cannot perform the mapp...
CMS has undertaken various initiatives to improve maternal healthcare. In May 2024, CMS published an RFI on Obstetrical Services Standards for hospitals, critical access hospitals and rural emergency hospitals in the FY 2024 Hospital IPPS Proposed Rule, seeking public comments on developing targeted ...
CMS released the calendar year (CY) 2023 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System Final Rule.
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 ...
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 ...