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. Proposed REH Payments. CMS ultimately proposed a monthly facility payment of $268,294 (just over $3.2 5 Percent OPPS Increase. million per year) for 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

The following is a guest article by Rob Stuart, Founder and President at Claim.MD This lack of code interoperability creates paperwork challenges for American hospitals seeking payment from other nations. Medical tourism is big business for leading hospitals and health centers around the world.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The previous articles in this series showed how payers, providers, and digital health companies try to prove that they’re helping to create healthier patients. But this final article looks at how some organizations are filling the gap. This is not likely to emerge for some time.

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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%

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Since January, 2021, articles and studies have revealed the lack of compliance, bringing this issue to the attention of Congress. The Wall Street Journal’s article Hospitals Still Not Fully Complying with Federal Price-Disclosure Rules , reported in December, 2021, that some of the biggest hospitals have failed to comply with the final rule.

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Drug & Device Law

JULY 31, 2023

The now-venerable Restatement (Second) of Torts §402A (1965), describes “products” as “chattels” or “articles.” The 2005 revisions to Article 2 excludes “information” from the definition of goods and also defines computer software as “information.” Digital files were not “articles,” which must be “material things.” at 1291-92.

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