HealthIT Answers

APRIL 23, 2024

On April 10, 2024, CMS issued the fiscal year 2025 Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment system and long-term care hospital prospective payment system proposed rule. The proposed rule would update Medicare fee-for-service payment rates and policies for inpatient hospitals and LTCHs for FY 2025.

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NCG Medical Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

This program utilizes a “score” system comprised of four categories. If you’re a Medicare provider , then you might want to know about MIPS—a healthcare incentive program that helps gather data of quality and performance outcomes over time while rewarding medical practices that demonstrate improvements.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 27, 2023

By Bill Smither, executive director, CSG Forte Payment Systems. Patients and healthcare organizations […] The article Beyond the Bill: Enhancing the Patient Payments Experience appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 13, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released its proposed Medicare payment rates and policy updates under the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory S | The CY 2024 OPPS and ASC Payment System Proposed Rule includes a 2.8%

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Holland & Knight

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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HealthIT Answers

APRIL 9, 2024

ET for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Survey for the 2024 performance year. Registration is open through July 1, 2024, at 8 p.m. The post 2024 CAHPS for MIPS Survey Registration is Now Open appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 23, 2024

The healthcare system’s private sector could learn a thing or two about efficiency from the government’s Veterans Health Administration, which employs about 30% less administrative staff across cli | The government health program's simplified payment system helps keep its payroll lean, as opposed to a private sector that employs hundreds of thousands (..)

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HealthIT Answers

APRIL 2, 2024

The Merit-based Incentive Payment System Value Pathways registration window is open for the 2024 performance year. Individuals, groups, subgroups, and Alternative Payment Model (APM) Entities that wish to report an MVP can register until December 2, 2024, at 8 p.m.

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HealthIT Answers

MARCH 26, 2024

CMS has extended the data submission period for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligible clinicians who participated in the 2023 performance year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). Now Open Until April 15. The post QPP Deadline Extension for MIPS 2023 Data Submission appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 12, 2023

pay bump, disproportionate share hospital payment calculations, new quality measures and other proposals included in the fiscal year 2024 Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems rule proposal.

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HealthIT Answers

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Deadlines: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would like to remind clinicians of important upcoming Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) dates and deadlines: The post Upcoming MIPS Important Dates and Deadlines appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Modern Healthcare

APRIL 10, 2023

The fiscal 2024 Medicare inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also includes new safety and health equity provisions.

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 1, 2020

By Terry Rowinski, president & CEO, Health Payment Systems, Inc. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Almost a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the stress surrounding the rising number of cases and the ensuing economic recession reminds high. Nearly half a […].

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HealthIT Answers

JANUARY 31, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services opened data submission for Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligible clinicians who participated in the 2023 performance year of the Quality Payment Program. Data can be submitted and updated until 8:00 p.m. ET on April 1, 2024.

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HealthIT Answers

AUGUST 12, 2023

On August 1, 2023, the CMS issued the fiscal year 2024 Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and long-term care hospital prospective payment system (LTCH PPS) final rule. The final rule updates Medicare fee-for-service payment rates and policies for inpatient hospitals and LTCHs for FY 2024.

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HealthIT Answers

APRIL 18, 2023

On April 10, 2023, CMS issued the fiscal year 2024 Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment system and long-term care hospital prospective payment system proposed rule. The post FY 2024 CMS Hospital IPPS and LTCH PPS Proposed Rule appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Modern Healthcare

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Ambulatory surgery centers will receive a $230 million Medicare reimbursement boost next year under the Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

While I’m not sure exactly why changes to the Hospital Price Transparency requirement happened in the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System Final Rule (CMS-1753FC), it happened there nonetheless (Here are the details on the Federal register).

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Medisys Compliance

MARCH 14, 2023

Wound Care Reimbursements in Various Healthcare Settings Inpatient Hospital Wound care in an inpatient hospital setting is reimbursed through the Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) payment system. The MPFS is a payment system that reimburses healthcare providers for services rendered to Medicare patients in an outpatient setting.

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Holland & Knight

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

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Hanys

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This week HANYS submitted comments to CMS in response to its proposed Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule; payment policies under the Physician Fee Schedule and other changes to Part B payment and coverage policies; and short-term, limited-duration plan proposed rule.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The following is a guest article by Terry Rowinski, President & CEO of Health Payment Systems, Inc. We’re now several months into navigating our next normal.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 31, 2023

CMS and HHS will test an alternative payment system for individuals with dementia to better assist patients and caregivers. The federal government is seeking to improve quality of life for both people with dementia and their caregivers through a new model called Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience, or GUIDE. |

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 2, 2020

By Terry Rowinski, president & CEO, Health Payment Systems, Inc. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. We’ve seen it time and time again—a patient receives services from an out-of-network provider at an in-network facility and is surprised with a huge medical […].

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HealthIT Answers

MAY 18, 2023

CMS encourages you to submit Promoting Interoperability measures and improvement activities for consideration for future years of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). The post Call for MIPS Promoting Interoperability Measures and Improvement Activities appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Hanys

JUNE 30, 2023

At the request of HANYS and our federal advocacy partners, 12 members of the New York delegation joined a bipartisan letter to CMS urging the agency to adjust inadequate payment updates proposed in the FFY 2024 Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System rule. HANYS will continue to advocate for this critical adjustment.

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HealthIT Answers

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would like to remind clinicians of important upcoming Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) dates and deadlines: The post Reminder: Upcoming MIPS Important Dates and Deadlines appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HealthIT Answers

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would like to remind clinicians of important upcoming Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) dates and deadlines in 2022. The post Upcoming MIPS Important Dates and Deadlines appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2023

Credit funds managed by SVB Capital lead new funding round to finance growth of PayMedix Healthcare Payment Solution Health Payment Systems, Inc. HPS)/PayMedix today announced it has raised another $25 million of funding to accelerate the growth of its groundbreaking PayMedix healthcare financing solution.

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HealthIT Answers

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

By Alex Baker & Elisabeth Myers - This is the second blog post in a two-part series that examines how policies finalized by CMS in the 2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule are advancing the use of interoperable health IT.

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HealthIT Answers

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued final rules on the 2023 Physician Fee Schedule and the 2023 End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System. They include updates and policy changes that will take effect January 1.

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HealthIT Answers

OCTOBER 20, 2022

By Alex Baker & Elisabeth Myers - On August 1, 2022, CMS announced final changes to its payment program for acute care hospitals in 2023. The FY 2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule also included policies for the 2023 Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program, which rewards.

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Symplr

JUNE 5, 2023

As the backbone of health care documentation and payment systems, this is a critical thing to get right. Codes are constantly evolving. New codes are added. Old codes are deleted or replaced. And, code descriptors are revised.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2020

The new telehealth-eligible eCQMs are for any eligible professionals or eligible clinicians participating in CMS quality reporting programs for performance period 2020, including the Merit-based Incentive Payment System and Advanced Alternative Payment Models, Comprehensive Primary Care Plus, Primary Care First, and the Medicaid Promoting Interoperability (..)

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Hanys

JULY 29, 2022

Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand joined 28 other senators in sending CMS a bipartisan letter asking the agency to change the final 2023 Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System rule, leveraging existing authority, to more accurately reflect the cost of providing hospital care to patients.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 6, 2021

The companies pointed to the potential to reduce administrative waste, inform patient care decisions and improve payment systems across the industry.

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Hanys

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule for 2023 contains several HANYS advocacy priorities including a 3.8% Further details are available to members online.

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