End-of-year presentations by The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) provide readers data and analysis of 2023 payments and future 2025 payments for outpatient dialysis, hospice, home healthcare, inpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing, hospital outpatient billing, rural emergency hospitals and physician and other health...CMS Rules
On November 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the Calendar Year (CY) 2023 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System rules. In the rule, OPPS and ASC payment rates will increase by 3.8% and announced a new provider designation: the rural...
On July 26, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule that included new payment model for rural emergency hospitals (REH). The designation seeks to alleviate financial disturbance in the continuity of care provided in areas with limited medical resources by shifting from an inpatient bed model to...
On Friday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the proposed rules for the CY 2023 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System. Most notably, the CMS proposed increase for OPPS rates for hospitals and ASCs that meet quality reporting...
On June 30, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a new provider type developed for Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and certain rural hospitals to help them avert potential closure and provide support for the essential services they provide to the communities they serve.
A Rural Emergency Hospital ...
