The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized its Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) payment rates on Nov. 2 for calendar year (CY) 2024. TheFinal Rulewill be effective on Jan. 1, 2024. The Final Rule updates Medicare pay...
In response to the final rule, the American Hospital Association (AHA) expressed its shared goal of improving maternal health outcomes but tookissuewith CMS' use of conditions of participation in this space. "While we appreciate that the final rule provides hospitals with additional ...
Under the final rule, CMS also extended several regulatory telehealth waivers through 2025, including a waiver that allows virtual supervision for residents in teaching settings when services are provided virtually and a waiver for Federally Qualified Healthcare Centers and rural health facilitie...
HCPCS Codes:CMS solicits comments on 73 new healthcare common procedure coding system (HCPCS) codes effective April 1, 2024, and 127 new HCPCS codes effective July 1, 2024. CMS will also solicit comments on HCPCS codes effective Oct. 1, 2024, and Jan. 1, 2025, in the Final Rule. ...
rule or interim final rule, as applicable, except under exceptional circumstances. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CMS is extending the timeline to finalize the provisions in the June 18, 2022 proposed rule for 1 year, until July 18, 2023. The proposed rule would revise the Medicare and...
There are several important policy changes in the proposed rule. First, for CY 2022, CMS received eight applications for device pass-through payments and is soliciting comment on the applications. Final determinations will be made in the final rule. CMS estimated that drug and biological pass...
On November 2, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published this draft of the final rule regarding calendar year 2022 Medicare program payment policies under the physician fee schedule and other changes to Part B payment policies, Medicare Shared Savings Program requirem...
1 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) © 2024 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. 2 Source: CMS CY2025 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule: CMS 1807-F, including related PFS ad...
CMS Finalizes Several Changes for Skin Substitutes in CY 2015 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final RuleIsbey, Elizabeth
This final rule with comment period revises the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) and the Medicare ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system for CY 2018 to implement changes arising from our continuing ... HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS - 《Fed...