Medicare issues home health PPS notice The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a notice to update the Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) for calendar year 2009.
2009 OPPS rule is good news for EDs Trauma response, critical care receive pay boost Every year at about this time, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) publishes its final Out-patient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) payment rule for the following calendar year, and every year emergency medicine experts express their dissatisfaction with one aspect or another of what CMS has wrought.
CMS to add outpatient quality measures to OPPS Agency shifts to link reimbursement to quality In its proposed rule for the Outpatient Prospective Payment System, issued July 3, 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continued its efforts to tie reimbursement to quality of services, adding four new outpatient quality measures that hospitals must report on and asking for public comments on an additional 18 measures being considered for future years.
A new rule to improve the accuracy of Medicare's payment under the acute care hospital inpatient prospective payment system has been proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Along with political debates over Medicare's Part D prescription drug benefit and other Medicare issues, he would oversee the ongoing reconfiguration of the inpatient prospective payment system.
The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 directed GAO to compare the relative costs of procedures furnished in ASCs to the relative costs of those procedures furnished in hospital outpatient departments, in particular, how accurately the payment groups used in the hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) reflect the relative costs of procedures performed in ASCs.
We think that's a fair increase," said Mark Covall, executive director of the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems, adding that this is the first increase since CMS implemented the prospective payment system for inpatient psychiatric facilities in early 2005.
