CMS proposes skilled nursing facility rule, mulls 11.3% reduction in payments for 2012. (cover story)The article reports on a proposal by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of rules for prospective payment systems (PPS) for skilled nursing facilities and inpatient ...
Week in ReviewHighlight of the Week: This week, CMS released its Skilled Nursing Facility and Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rules and HHS announced the establishment of the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice. Read more about these actions and other news below. I. Regulat...
CMS proposed rule to address Skilled Nursing Facility Medicare rate increases for fiscal 2016, and proposed measures that reflect shift from volume-based to value-ba
CMS hasfinalizeda 4.0 percent increase in Medicare Part A payments to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in fiscal year (FY) 2024. The payment boost translates to $1.4 billion and is slightly higher than the 3.7 percent increase the agency initiallyproposed. The update reflects a...
At skilled nursing facilities, nurse practitioners will now be able to perform some medical exams that doctors normally conduct on Medicare patients, whether they are COVID-19-related or not, CMS said. Occupational therapists from home health agencies can now perform initial assessments on certain ...
CMS CLIA Certification说明书
(CMS) has published a new interim final rule and additional guidance and FAQs that, among other portions applicable to other health care providers, address the new requirement that Medicare and Medicaid certified skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities...
Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Exception Request – Peer Group Data The District Court remanded this case for a determination of the effect of CMS’s failure to remove misclassified costs from the data used to create the peer group used to process the Provider’s exception request. The Board ...
Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Program End-Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program The policy will use various factors to assess whether to suppress measures or not. HAC reduction program CMS proposes suppression of Q3 and Q4 2020 Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAI) and CMS Pati...
“The program clearly differentiates the delivery of acute hospital care at home from more traditional home health services,” CMS said in the press release. “While home health care provides important skilled nursing and other skilled care services, Acute Hospital Care at Home i...