MedPAC Reports to Congress
MedPAC has submitted its annual report to Congress. The congressionally mandated report, titled Report to Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System, consists of seven chapters: Realizing the promise of value-based payment in Medicare: an agenda for change. Challenges [...]
Coronavirus Update for Thursday, June 18
Coronavirus update for Thursday, June 18 as of 3:00 p.m. CARES Act Provider Relief Fund - Medicaid and SCHIP-Only Distribution Webcasts On its Provider Relief Fund web page, HHS has posted the following notice: HHS expects to distribute $15 billion [...]
Coronavirus Update for Tuesday, June 16
Coronavirus update for Tuesday, June 16 as of 2:30 p.m. Department of Health and Human Services HHS has updated its CARES Act Provider Relief Fund FAQ, adding new questions on pages 9 and 32 that are labeled “Added 6/13/2020” and [...]
Coronavirus Update for Friday, June 12
Coronavirus update for Friday, June 12 as of 4:00 p.m. Department of Health and Human Services As we reported previously, HHS will be distributing $10 billion in CARES Act Provider Relief Fund grants to hospitals that have served especially large [...]
Coronavirus Update for Wednesday, June 10
Coronavirus update for Wednesday, June 10 as of 3:00 p.m. Department of Health and Human Services On Tuesday HHS announced that it will be distributing $15 billion to clinicians and facilities that participate in state Medicaid and CHIP programs and/or [...]
New Distributions of Provider Relief Fund Money
On Tuesday morning the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it will distribute $10 billion to hospitals located in COVID-19 hotspots that have cared for especially large numbers of COVID-19 patients. It also will distribute $25 billion in [...]
Coronavirus Update for Monday, June 6
Coronavirus update for Monday, June 8 as of 2:30 p.m. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS has updated its “COVID-19 Emergency Declaration Blanket Waivers for Health Care Providers” document. Added since the last version are a new section, on [...]
Coronavirus Update for Friday, June 5
Coronavirus update for Friday, June 5 as of 2:30 p.m. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services In the past week CMS issued six section 1135 waivers to give states greater flexibility to serve their Medicaid beneficiaries during the COVID-19 public health [...]
Coronavirus Update for Thursday, June 4, 2020
Coronavirus update for Thursday, June 4 as of 2:30 p.m. NASH Advocacy Today NASH sent a letter to HHS Secretary Alex Azar and CMS Administrator Seema Verma expressing safety-net hospitals’ disappointment that HHS still has not made a targeted distribution [...]
Coronavirus Update for June 3
Coronavirus update for Wednesday, June 3 as of 12:00 p.m. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS has updated its FAQ on Medicare COVID-19 fee-for-service billing. All of the changes address national coverage determinations and are clearly marked within the document. [...]
