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Ask the Expert: Business Metrics
What metrics should hospitals use for business planning?
CY16 OPPS Final Rule Fact Sheet
This fact sheet highlights 2016 payment rate updates to outpatient hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers under the Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS).
HFMA Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Final Rule Executive Summary
This Executive Summary provides the top 10 issues providers need to understand from the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) final rule, published in the November 24, 2015, Federal Register.
HFMA’s Regulatory Sound Bites: An Overview of the Final 2016 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Rule
This presentation provides a summary of 2016 inpatient prospective payment system updates that affect inpatient acute care hospitals.
Executive Summary – CY 2016 OPPS Final Rule
This summary features the top 10 issues providers need to understand from the CY16 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) final rule, published in the November 13, 2015, Federal Register.
HFMA Legislative Update Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015
This legislative update provides answers to questions pertaining to Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 implementing (with limited exemptions) site neutral payments for new Provider-Based Hospital Outpatient Departments.
Discharge Planning CMS Proposal
CMS has published a proposed rule to modernize discharge planning requirements to improve patient care, reduce complications, and avoid readmissions.
Ask the Experts: Preparing for the Annual Bond-Rating Review
Our bonds are rated by two of the three major rating agencies, and our annual reviews are coming up. What can we do to prepare, and should we do anything different this year?
Ask the Experts: Collection KPIs
Can you share collection rate benchmarks for third-party extended business offices?
Ask the Experts: Charity Care
Can a hospital exclude a patient from the charity care if that patient is eligible for the exchange plans or Medicaid?