CMS Offers Additional Guidance on “Two-Midnight Rule”
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued [...]
Enthusiasm Waning for Permanent Medicare Doc Fix
While most health care interests and members of Congress want [...]
New Approaches to Serving Dual Eligibles Set to Launch
Provisions in the Affordable Care Act that encourage states to [...]
Some Hospitals Stand to Lose Medicaid Expansion, DSH Money
When the Supreme Court made Medicaid expansion optional rather than [...]
Observation Status, the “Two-Midnight Rule,” and Continuing Controversy
Amid continuing complaints from hospitals, the Centers for Medicare & [...]
ACOs Show Encouraging Signs
Provider groups that just completed their first year in Medicare’s [...]
MedPAC Endorses Site-Neutral Payments
MedPAC has recommended to Congress that Medicare equalize the rates [...]
MedPAC Recommends Raise for Hospitals
The independent agency that advises Congress on Medicare payment issues [...]
Medicare Appeals Go on Back Burner
Faced with a backlog of more than 350,000 appeals of [...]
The Time May Have Arrived for a Permanent “Doc Fix”
Congress appears serious about addressing a long-running problem: the need [...]
