CMS has released aproposed rulefor the fiscal year (FY) 2024 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS). The proposed rule would update hospital payment rates by 2.8 percent next fiscal year and adopt policies aimed at advancing health equity. Under the rule, CMS has pro...
IPPS Proposed Rule: Read Once, Then Take an AspirinWolin, Robert
On February 12, Foley partners Kinal Patel, co-chair of the firm’s Payor/Provider Convergence Area of Focus, and Adria Warren are hosting CancerX’s upcoming webinar “Navigating Reimbursement Realities: Challenges & Opportunities in Value-Based Cancer Care” with Jasper Healt...
2021, CMS is re-establishing the minimum area wage index for hospitals in all-urban states beginning with discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2021. CMS indicates that, based on data available at the release of this proposed rule, the change would apply...
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...
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 ...
On April 24, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule (CMS-1694-P). Among other changes, CMS proposes eliminating its regulatory requirement that a written inpatient admission order be ...
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