The new CMS price transparency rule went into effect July 1, requiring hospitals to report price information in a standard machine-readable format, according to the American Hospital Association. The ...
On July 10, 2024, CMS issued a proposed rule with updates to the Medicare payment rates for the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) ...
CMS‘ final rule on hospital outpatient prospective payments include a number of minor changes relevant to physician-owned hospitals. The final rule principally modifies the process through which ...
Earlier this month, OIG’s Office of Audit Services released its latest report on providers’ compliance with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule (the HPT Rule). The HPT Rule requires hospitals to make ...
Are Americans getting any closer to price transparency in their healthcare experience? The latest update from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) may have inched us toward that ...
The Biden administration has finalized a 2.9% payment hike for inpatient hospitals in Medicare next year, an increase over the 2.6% that regulators initially proposed. It’s on the higher end of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Medicare provides insurance coverage to seniors 65 and over. Unfortunately, there are problems with the coverage. Medicare doesn't ...