Offering a bit of leeway, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has pushed out the deadline for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals to attest to meaningful use for the 2014 ...
A decade ago, federal officials drafted a plan to discourage Medicare Advantage health insurers from overcharging the government by billions of dollars — only to abruptly back off amid an “uproar” ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed April 26 its fiscal 2014 Medicare payment schedule. Included in the proposal are payment cuts to hospitals that treat uninsured individuals and ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have finalized payment rates and policies for 2014. Included is a major proposal to support care outside routine office-based interactions. A press ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Tuesday published an update for the 2014 Clinical Quality Measures for hospitals eligible for the meaningful use program. At the same time, CMS also ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended the deadline for eligible professionals to attest to meaningful use for the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program ...
A federal judge ruled in favor of UnitedHealthcare insurers and vacated a 2014 CMS rule they claimed resulted in the systematic underpayment of Medicare Advantage insurers. U.S. District Court Judge ...
On November 27, 2013, CMS released the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems final rule with comment period for calendar year 2014 (the “Final Rule”).
Last week, CMS issued its proposed rule for acute-care hospitals paid under the inpatient prospective payment system, and the rule included major changes and suggestions in regards to hospitals’ ...
Editor's note: This post was updated on February 6, 2014, to include information regarding coverage options for under-65 Medicare beneficiaries losing existing state high-risk pool coverage. (See the ...
In its annual update, CMS updated the electronic specifications of the clinical quality measures that were finalized in the stage 2 meaningful use rule. CMS encourages the implementation and use of ...
CMS is giving eligible hospitals, including critical access hospitals, one extra month to attest for meaningful use in 2014 in order to receive payments under the EHR Incentive Programs. The new ...