HFMA Comments on Medicare Part B Inpatient Hospital Billing and the RAC Program
HFMA is concerned with aspects of the RAC program that violate many of HFMA’s principles of a reformed payment system. Comments focused on rebilling for medically necessary services and the timeframe.
HFMA Comment Letter: Second Draft of Sustainable Growth Rate Repeal & Reform Proposal
Read HFMA's comments to the chairs of the House of Representatives' Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committees and their respective Health Subcommittees on their drafted framework for legislation to replace the SGR.
HFMA Comment Letter: Medicare Program: Request for Information on Clinical Quality Measures Reporting
HFMA comments to CMS on its efforts to simplify requirements for physician quality reporting. HFMA supports efforts to better align CMS policy with HFMA's core payment reform principles.
HFMA’s Comment Letter to CMS on Hospital Value-Based Purchasing
HFMA submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the weighting of the HCAHPS domain within the CMS Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program.
HFMA’s Comment Letter on CMS’s Proposed Rule to Delay ICD-10
HFMA prepared a comment on the CMS proposal to change the compliance date for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS medical data code sets that was published in the April 17, 2012, Federal Register.
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 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 Comments on CMMI Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Initiative
HFMA, guided by members engaged in bundling payments and its Health Reform Advisory Council and Local Information Networks, proactively offers CMMI suggestions to improve the bundled payment pilot.
HFMA Comment Letter on IRS’s Proposed Rule: Additional Requirements for Charitable Hospitals
HFMA submitted comments to the Office Management and Budget in response to the Department of the Treasury and IRS's proposed regulations under Section 501(r)(4)-(6)
HFMA Comment Letter on IRS’s Proposed Rule: Additional Requirements for Charitable Hospitals, Section 501(c)(3)
HFMA submitted comments to the Office of Management and Budget in response to the Department of the Treasury and IRS's proposed regulations under Section 501(r) of the code, as published in the June 26, 2012, Federal Register.