Coronavirus Update: March 31, 2020
Coronavirus Update: March 31, 2020. Yesterday the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a major update of Medicare and Medicaid regulations that included blanket waivers of a large number of Medicare and Medicaid regulations and requirements. The [...]
Coronavirus Update for March 30, 2020
NASH's coronavirus update for March 30, 2020 as of 4:15 today. The White House Vice President Pence has written to all hospitals asking them to provide to the Department of Health and Human Services daily statistics on all of their [...]
Coronavirus Update: March 27, 2020
Coronavirus Update: March 27, 2020: The following is the latest information from Congress, federal regulators, and others as of 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 27. Congress The House of Representatives passed the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security [...]
MedPAC Offers 2021 Medicare Rate Recommendations
MedPAC has recommended to Congress changes in Medicare payment rates in the coming year. In its annual report to Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended the following rate changes: acute-care hospitals – a two percent rate increase and a [...]
NASH Asks Feds for Resources for Hospitals
Private safety-net hospitals will need federal financial support to help in the fight against COVID-19. That was the message the National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals sent in a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Seema Verma. The [...]
The Latest CMS and CDC Info on COVID-19 Measures
CMS updates COVID-19 guidelines, regulations, the waiving of regulations, and more daily on the “Current Emergencies” page of the CMS website. Find it here. In addition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regularly posts COVIS-19 updates of its [...]
NASH Seeks Assistance With COVID-19 Needs
Provide special assistance to private safety-net hospitals to help them serve their communities during the COVID-19 national health emergency, NASH has asked in a letter to Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and minority leader Charles Schumer. In particular, NASH asked [...]
CMS Posts COVID-19 FAQ for State Medicaid and CHIP Agencies
State Medicaid agencies and CHIP programs have received new guidance on the federal resources available to them to fight the COVID-19 national health emergency through a new FAQ published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week. Among [...]
Block Grants Could Hurt Medicaid, Study Finds
A switch to block grants to fund state Medicaid programs “…would require states to cut coverage, reduce benefits, increase cost-sharing, lower provider payment rates, or otherwise reduce Medicaid expenditures as compared to current law spending levels” according to a new [...]
MedPAC Meets
Last week the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission met in Washington, D.C. to discuss a number of Medicare payment issues. The issues on MedPAC’s March agenda were: Addressing Medicare Shared Savings Program vulnerabilities The role of specialists in alternative payment models and [...]
