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.
Ask the Expert: CMS Statements for Medicare Patients
States--not CMS--have regulations in place related to timely patient notification of the availability of financial assistance/charity, as well as a statement that includes a summary of charges.
Ask the Expert Answer: Fiscal Intermediary and Medicare Bad Debt
Q Our FI is currently disallowing our Medicare bad debts which we claimed and wrote off in accordance with our charity care policy. We believe our Medicare deductible copay amounts that we did not collect because the patient was indigent
Ask the Experts Answer: Medicare Crossovers to Medicaid Bad Debt
If Medicaid contractualizes all or some of the amount deemed as coinsurance by Medicare, can the contractual amount be claimed as part of the bad debt on the cost report? Or, are we only able to claim the amount that Medicaid notes as being the copay or deductible on the cost report?
Ask the Expert: Medicare Payment for Home Health
Medicare does not distinguish payment by hospital-based or stand-alone home health agencies.
Ask the Expert: When Physicians Terminate Medicare Part B Contracts
When physicians terminate Medicare Part B contracts.
Ask the Expert: Recording Meaningful Use Payments
HFMA's Principles & Practices Board is working on publishing guidance on the recording of meaningful use payments.
FY12 IPPS Final Rule Overview
This document provides an overview of CMS's final rule updating the payment rates under the IPPS and the LTCH PPS for fiscal year 2012 (FY12).
CY12 OPPS Final Rule Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides updates to payment rates under the hospital outpatient PPS for CY12.
FY12 Skilled Nursing Facility PPS Final Rule Fact Sheet
This fact sheet contains noteworthy information on the final rule updating payments to Skilled Nursing Facilities in FY12.