May 2008 Report: CMS should encourage states to conduct mortality reviews for individ- uals with developmental disabilities. http://www.gao.gov/new .items/d08529.pdf. Accessed September 8, 2010.Government Accountability Office. Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waivers: CMS Should Encourage States ...
Waivers and exemptions available, but ability to obtain them unclear Compliance with facility assessment changes required by August 8, 2024 In a long-anticipated rulesubmitted for public inspectionon April 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the minimum...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Nov. 1, 2022, released the calendar year (CY) 2023 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System Final Rule with comment period (CMS-1772-FC), which includes proposa...
On September 6, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule correction entitled,MedicareProgram; Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program; Health Information Technology Standards and Implementation Specifications; Correction. This document corrects typographical and technical...
CMS Approves Medicaid Section 1135 Waivers for 11 Additional States in Response to COVID-19 FEMA Heads Says Administration Will Use Defense Production Act to Obtain 60,000 Coronavirus Tests Florida DMEPOS Medicaid Program COVID-19 Response Tennessee DMEPOS Medicaid Program COVID-19 Response Treasury,...
CMS’ new openness to state waivers for the Medicaid program provides these able-bodied adults with “supports and services they need to rise out of poverty,” Verma said. Ultimately, the goals of CMS’ recent policy changes have all started with putting patients first. For hospitals ...
CMS proposes to define a non-indigent beneficiary as a beneficiary who has not been determined to be categorically or medically needy by a state Medicaid agency to receive medical assistance from Medicaid, and has not been determined to be indigent by the provider for Medicare bad debt purposes....
August 7, 2023–Legal Alerts Timothy Cahill and Bryan Cockroft The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has announced its proposed rules for theHospital Outpatient Prospective Payment (“OPPS”) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (“ASC”) Payment Systems, as well as its calendar ...
CMS Issues Proposed Rule on Medicaid HCBS WaiversThe article focuses on the proposal of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to revise the regulations on Medicare home- an...
This is the first major change to the requirements for long-term care facilities’ participation in Medicare and Medicaid involving staffing and facility assessments in more than eight years. In the preamble to the rule, CMS itself acknowledges that the changes in the rule will require...