Healthcare It News

MAY 2, 2024

"We pledge to do everything in our power to fix their system or underwrite their cashflow, simple as that," he already promised in his opening testimony. While much of the claims and payment system functionality has been restored, according to an April 29 letter from the American Hospitals Association to Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,

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Hall Render

AUGUST 1, 2022

The proposed payment policies include an initial monthly facility fee of approximately $268,000 per month, which will adjust in future years based on a market-basket update. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “Act”) signed into law on December 27, 2020, established the new REH provider type. Proposed REH Payments.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Following this reporting, impacted providers and teaching hospitals will have the opportunity to review reported payments and investments and to dispute any incorrect reports until May 15, 2022. In January 2021, four new nature of payment categories were added, which will be included in reporting for the first time in 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association was among several groups this week that submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule. THE LARGER TREND.

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Hall Render

JULY 7, 2022

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “Act”) signed into law on December 27, 2020, created a new Medicare provider type called a Rural Emergency Hospital (“REH”). The Act specifies that REHs will be paid for outpatient services at 105% of the otherwise applicable rates under the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (“OPPS”).

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

On July 26, 2022, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare (“CMS”) published the 2023 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OOPS) and Ambulatory Surgery Center Payment System Proposed Rule. Background.

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Health Law Attorney

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services ( CMS ) recently released the 2021 Outpatient Prospective Payment System ( OPPS ) and Ambulatory Surgical Center ( ASC ) Final Rule, which may be accessed here.

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Verisys

JUNE 13, 2023

It withdraws the regulations issued in the interim final rule published November 5, 2021 in “Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination”. It finalizes provisions published May 13, 2021 in “COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements for Long-Term Care (LTC) Facilities and Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities”.

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Hall Render

JUNE 22, 2022

On Friday, June 17, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) posted a pre-publication copy of the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2023 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update (“PPS Rule”). CMS’s data shows a downward trend in utilization in 2020 but then an increase in utilization in 2021.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 10, 2023

On August 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued its Final Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (“IPPS”) and Long-Term Care Hospital (“LTCH”) PPS rule for fiscal year (“FY”) 2024 (“Final Rule”). The Final Rule increases the rate for IPPS payments by 3.3% Becerra , 621 F.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

In May 2021, CMS issued an interim final rule that required SNFs to educate staff and residents on the risks and benefits of COVID vaccination and to offer or assist in accessing COVID vaccination for staff and residents. CMS ended several of the SNF blanket waivers in 2021 and 2022. COVID Vaccine Education. COVID Staff Vaccine.

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Medisys Compliance

APRIL 18, 2022

An Alternative Payment Model (APM) is a payment approach that gives added incentive payments to provide high-quality and cost-efficient care. Beginning in 2026, QPs will receive a higher annual Medicare fee schedule adjustment than non-QPs.

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Hall Render

APRIL 20, 2022

The Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (“IPPS”) is designed to pay hospitals for services provided to Medicare beneficiaries based on a national standardized amount adjusted for the patient’s condition and related treatment. Background.

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Health Care Law Brief

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final rules for the 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS Final Rule) and 2022 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System (OPPS Final Rule). 39104 (July 23, 2021).

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Health Care Law Brief

JULY 25, 2023

For example, between April 5, 2021 and May 31, 2023, ONC received 708 complaints alleging “possible claims of information blocking,” of which 598 (79%) were from patients or on a patient’s behalf, and in which health care providers were named as the alleged violating actors 80% of the time. [13] 1] See 21st Century Cures Act, Pub.

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Hall Render

JULY 14, 2023

On Friday, June 20, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) posted a pre-publication copy of the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update (“PPS Rule”), which has since been published in the Federal Register and is currently open for comment. Physical Therapy 3.30

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C&M Health Law

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The regulations impact CMS-regulated payers and provide incentives for providers and hospitals that participate in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program and the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating Spending, Worsening Outcomes indicates that in 2021 the U.S. In 1983 Medicare shifted to the inpatient Prospective Payment System (PPS) and DRGs (Diagnostic Related Groups) and only paying a limited number of days to the hospital regardless of the actual length of stay.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating Spending, Worsening Outcomes indicates that in 2021 the U.S. In 1983 Medicare shifted to the inpatient Prospective Payment System (PPS) and DRGs (Diagnostic Related Groups) and only paying a limited number of days to the hospital regardless of the actual length of stay.

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AIHC

JANUARY 28, 2022

billion in uncompensated care payments for FY 2021, a decrease of approximately $60 million from FY 2020. This estimate of total uncompensated care payments reflects CMS Office of the Actuary’s projections that incorporate the estimated impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this rule, CMS will distribute roughly $8.3

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Noncompliance with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule The Hospital Price Transparency Final Rule (“the final rule”) was published in November 2019 and went into effect on January 2021. Since January, 2021, articles and studies have revealed the lack of compliance, bringing this issue to the attention of Congress.

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Health Law Advisor

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Announced in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs) will be a new type of Medicare provider starting January 1, 2023. Existing CAHs and rural hospitals with fewer than 50 beds will be eligible to convert to an REH.

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Hall Render

MARCH 28, 2023

CMS ended several of the SNF blanket waivers in 2021 and 2022. In May 2021, CMS issued an interim final rule that required SNFs to educate staff and residents on the risks and benefits of COVID vaccination and to offer or assist in accessing COVID vaccination for staff and residents. COVID Vaccine Education. COVID Staff Vaccine.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

On November 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) posted a pre-publication copy of the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update Final Rule (“2024 Final Rule”), which has since been filed in the Federal Register. 7,215 2021 5,532 77.5% 7,872 2018 5,851 77.1%

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Disclaimer: The information in this article is current as of July 26, 2021, and does not constitute medical or legal advice. In 2021 he was the featured speaker on? FY 2022 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule, Section XIX, available at [link]. About Ogi C. Kwon, JD, MHA. Price Transparency ?at References.

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C&M Health Law

AUGUST 10, 2022

Moreover, CMS itself had initially proposed a decrease of $320 million in aggregate Medicare Part A payments to SNFs during FY 2023, although the decrease was partially as a means to offset the unintended increase in payments of approximately $1.7 changes in hospitalization patterns in FY 2021, and fewer admissions to SNFs.

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Redox

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Unfortunately, despite this good news, there are still major technological and logistic hurdles between now and us all meeting up at HIMSS 2021 like “Wow, what a year that was, huh?”. As we barrel towards 2021, though, this infrastructure is only just coming into place. We are well on our way back towards normalcy, right?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2023

The latest data brief from ONC shows that 87% of office-based physicians used telemedicine in 2021 , compared to just 15% in 2018 – though the majority (53%) used if for less than 25% of their total visit volume. Health Payment Systems announced that PayMedix increases cash yield for healthcare organizations as much as 9.5%.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

million in 2021, more than the hospital spent on charity care in three years Could telehealth be the solution for the nursing shortage in hospitals? Jefferson Health thinks so Financially struggling rural Pa. hospital creates GoFundMe page with $1.5M

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Hall Render

APRIL 21, 2023

Billion in Community Benefit in 2021 OhioHealth buys land in Canal Winchester – 3 miles from competitor’s ER Quipt Home Medical inks $26M stock deal with Beacon Securities, Canaccord Genuity Corp.,

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 29, 2022

Enrollment more than doubled over the past decade, reaching nearly 27 million people in 2021. Although CMS chose not to appear at the hearing, officials clearly knew years ago that some health plans were abusing the payment system to boost profits yet for years ran the program as what one CMS official called an “honor system.”

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Drug & Device Law

JULY 31, 2023

2021) (applying California law), is a §230 preemption case. 2021 WL 1212713, at *14 (E.D. March 31, 2021) (“negligent product liability” claim dismissed against a “service” – “training. . . 2021 WL 4260622, at *5 (W.D. 20, 2021), certification denied , 2021 WL 5052101 (W.D. Control Systems, Inc. ,

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