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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 October 18, 2012

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.

HFMA October 18, 2012

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 October 18, 2012

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.

HFMA October 18, 2012

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.

HFMA October 18, 2012

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 October 18, 2012

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. 

HFMA October 18, 2012

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.

HFMA October 18, 2012

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.

HFMA October 18, 2012

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.

HFMA October 18, 2012