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Inpatient Psychiatric Facility PPS Proposed Rule for FY 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) April 4 issued its fiscal year (FY) 2024
AHA launches learning hub for health care quality leaders
AHA recently launched the Quality Collective, an exclusive peer-to-peer learning hub for health care quality leaders.
NQF accepting comments on potential Medicare quality measures
The National Quality Forum’s Measure Applications Partnership is accepting public comment through Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. ET on 52 performance measures CMS is considering for use in Medicare public reporting and payment programs.
How to Address 3 Critical Health Care Focus Areas for 2022
Service lines continue to be interrupted by COVID-19, with no end in sight. The health care workforce is stressed out and stretched thinly amid the so-called Great Resignation wave. Care delivery increasingly is being moved from hospitals to outpatient facilities and the home, thanks in part to an explosion of digital technologies.
Tackling the Surgical Backlog: Optimizing Perioperative Performance in Today’s Resource Constrained Environment
Hosted by the American Hospital Association in partnership with American Society of Anesthesiologists
Special Bulletin: CMS Releases Hospital Inpatient PPS Proposed Rule for Fiscal Year 2021
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) May 11 issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) PPS proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2021. In addition to proposing a 3.1% increase in inpatient PPS payments for 2021, the rule would require disclosure of certain payer-negotiated rates and makes changes to Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments, Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy payment and quality incentive programs.
Blog: Sustaining Quality Transparency While Accounting for COVID-19’s Unprecedented Challenges
Recent reports have mischaracterized Medicare’s proposals to account for the impact of COVID-19 in its quality measurement programs as “hiding” important and useful patient safety data from the public.
Skilled Nursing Facility PPS Proposed Rule for FY 2023
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on April 8 issued its fiscal year (FY) 2023 proposed rule for the skilled nursing facility (SNF) prospective payment system (PPS).
IRFs, LTCHs can review updated provider preview reports through April 6
Inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term care hospitals have until April 6 to access updated provider preview reports of their quality data.