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CY12 Home Health PPS Final Rule Fact Sheet
This document contains noteworthy information on CY12 prospective payment system updates to home health agencies.
HFMA Proactively Comments on the CMS Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
HFMA urged CMS to take that steps to provide data related to readmissions, align financial incentives across the care continuum, and change how excess readmissions are defined and calculated.
CY12 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule Fact Sheet
This document highlights the final payment rate updates under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for CY12.
HFMA comments on CMS’s proposed rule on reporting and returning of overpayments
HFMA comments on CMS’s proposed rule on the “Medicare Program; Reporting and Returning of Overpayments”, published in the February 16, 2012, Federal Register.
CY13 OPPS Proposed Rule Fact Sheet
This fact sheet summarizes the proposed rule released by CMS updating payments to outpatient hospitals paid under the Medicare OPPS, and ambulatory surgical centers for CY13.
CY13 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule Fact Sheet
This fact sheet contains information on the proposed rule released by CMS updating payment rates under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for calendar year 2013 (CY13).
HFMA’s Regulatory Sound Bites: An Overview of the Final 2013 Inpatient Prospective Payment Rule
This presentation highlights important information contained in the FY13 IPPS Final Rule.
Medicaid Healthcare-Acquired Condition Fact Sheet
This document discusses noteworthy aspects of the final rule prohibiting payments to states for the treatment of healthcare-acquired conditions, and authorizes states to identify other preventable conditions for which Medicaid payment will be prohibited.
Hospital Inpatient Value-Based Purchasing Program Final Rule Fact Sheet
CMS published a final rule to implement a new hospital value-based purchasing program under which hospitals that meet or exceed certain quality measures relating to clinical process of care and patient experience of care would be rewarded incenctives beginning in FY13.
Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative Fact Sheet
CMS announces its request for applications for providers to test episode-based payment for care using bundled payment methods under the Bundled Payment for Care Improvement initiative.