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Inpatient Psychiatric Facility PPS: FY 2022 Final Rule
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 29 issued its final rule for the inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) prospective payment system (PPS) for fiscal year (FY) 2022.
Inpatient PPS Final Rule for FY 2022
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CMS Strongly Encourages Medicare Advantage Plans to Relax Prior Authorization Requirements during Ongoing COVID-19 Surges
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today issued a Health Plan Management System memo to all Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAO) and Medicare-Medicaid Plans to strongly encourage them to waive or relax plan prior authorization requirements and utilization management processes to facilitate the movement of patients from general acute-care hospitals to post-acute care and other clinically-appropriate settings, including skilled nursing facilities, long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and home health agencies.
Long-term Care Hospital PPS Final Rule for FY 2022
This Regulatory Advisory summarizes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ fiscal year 2022 final rules and policy changes for the long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective payment system.
Dynamic Ventilator Reserve
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The Dynamic Ventilator Reserve is a public-private partnership between the American Hospital Association, the federal government and leading group purchasing organizations. This program brings together health systems from across the country to contribute a portion of their ventilator fleets to share with hospitals experiencing shortages.
AHA Special Message: AHA Releases Updated Patient Billing Guidelines
The AHA Board of Trustees earlier this year recommended updating the AHA’s patient billing guidance to better align with how care is delivered and financed currently. Today, we are releasing updated, voluntary guidelines that represent the AHA’s expectations of what the hospital and health system field can and should do to address issues of coverage, billing and debt collection, and patient and provider accountability.
Groups ask Congress to include ACO bill in reconciliation package
AHA and 11 other organizations representing hospitals and physicians urged House and Senate committee leaders to include in the budget reconciliation bill the Value in Health Care Act (H.R. 4587), legislation to strengthen Medicare’s value-based payment models and accountable care organizations.
CMS: Medicare ACOs save $1.9B in 2020
Accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program generated $1.9 billion in total net savings to Medicare in 2020, the fourth straight year of savings, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.
FDA: Stop using Shanghai Dasheng respirators
Health care providers should stop using N95 respirators made by Shanghai Dasheng Health Products Manufacturing Co. Ltd., which are no longer authorized for emergency use, the Food and Drug Administration announced.