At the 2018 AHA Annual Membership Meeting on Monday, May 7, CMS administrator Seema Verma focused on the agency’s efforts to reduce regulatory burdens and continued move from a fee-for-service to value-based system...Read More »
This report allows hospitals to monitor their baselines period performance for all domains and measures required for the Hospital VBP Program.Read More »
Following the March Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting on ICD-10, CMS released a number of code changes for the proposed fiscal year (FY) 2019 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS). In addition to code changes, CMS has also...Read More »
As part of the FY 2019 IPPS proposed rule, CMS said they want to require hospitals to publish a list of their standard charges in a machine-readable format online and update them once per year.Read More »
Humana, Inc. launched a value-based Hospital Incentive Program that will pay general acute care hospitals more money for delivering on key quality and efficiency metrics.Read More »
Providers should brush up on their MIPS knowledge and review reporting as the first quarter of 2018 draws to a close, via CMS’ recently released fact sheet.Read More »
The rule includes updates to quality initiatives and changes to the 2019 ICD-10-CM/PCS codes. Coming in at 1,883 pages, this year’s proposal tops last year’s by 51 pages.Read More »