The Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH) received a new final rule from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) this week. The rule helps providers by dropping a requirement that would have forced hospitals to disclose their contract terms...National News
Despite impassioned criticism from the hospital industry and a lawsuit from the American Hospital Association, CMS finally implemented its long-delayed hospital transparency rule on January 1, 2021. Multiple reports suggest that now, hospitals' are resisting complying with it.
The CMS Rule requires hospitals to “establish,...
