Feds Penalizing Wrong Hospitals for Readmissions, Study Finds
Medicare’s hospital readmissions reduction program often penalizes the wrong hospitals for excessive readmissions. Or so concludes a new study published in the journal JAMA Cardiology. According to the study, …the percentage of hospitals that were incorrectly penalized was 10.1% for [...]
Coronavirus Update for Thursday, October 15
The following is the latest COVID-19 information from the federal government as of 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 15. Provider Relief Fund Yesterday HHS held a webinar to provide more detailed information to health care providers about its planned $20 [...]
Coronavirus Update for Wednesday, October 14
The following is the latest COVID-19 information from the federal government as of 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 14. Reminder: HHS Webinar on Phase 3 General Distributions HHS will hold a webcast on Thursday, October 15 at 3:00 (eastern) to [...]
NASH Asks Congress to Help Preserve Federal COVID-19 Aid for Hospitals
Protect the COVID-19 aid the federal government has given to private safety-net hospitals, NASH has asked in a letter to Congress. The letter refers to changes in how the Department of Health and Human Services wants hospitals to calculate the [...]
Coronavirus Update for Friday, October 9
The following is the latest COVID-19 information from the federal government as of 2:15 p.m. on Friday, October 9. Provider Relief Fund Five questions in the Provider Relief Fund FAQ have been modified with updated answers; they can be found [...]
MedPAC Meets
Last week the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission met in Washington, D.C. to discuss a number of Medicare payment issues. Among the issues on MedPAC’s October agenda were: Medicare Advantage benchmark policy indirect medical education: current Medicare policy, concerns, and principles [...]
Congress Gives Hospitals Medicaid DSH Relief
Medicaid DSH allocations to states will not be reduced right away thanks to a new continuing resolution to fund the federal government through December 11. The Medicare disproportionate share allocation cuts to the states, mandated by the Affordable Care Act [...]
Coronavirus Update for Wednesday, October 7
The following is the latest COVID-19 information from the federal government as of 2:45 p.m. on Wednesday, October 7. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Updated Hospital Data Reporting Requirements CMS has issued guidance in support of an interim [...]
Medicaid and CHIP Enrollment Rising in Pandemic
Medicaid enrollment rose 6.2 percent and CHIP enrollment 0.5 percent during the first four months of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports. The enrollment increase can be traced to rising unemployment, with many [...]
NASH Submits Comments on Proposed Medicare Outpatient Regulation
NASH has submitted formal comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in response to that agency’s proposed 2021 Medicare outpatient prospective payment system rule. That rule describes how CMS proposes paying hospitals for Medicare-covered fee-for-service outpatient care in [...]
