Upcoming events and important healthcare news for the week of Dec. 9
Effective June 8, 2019, Livanta became the new Medicare Beneficiary and Family Centered Care Quality Improvement Organization (BFCC-QIO) for Michigan. Across the country, Livanta provides Medicare case review services for Medicare beneficiaries throughout 27 states and territories.
Weekly news and updates from the MHA.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that the Medicare fee-for-service Part A deductible for inpatient hospital services will increase by $44 to $1,408, effective Jan. 1.
Weekly news and updates from the MHA.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a final rule to update the Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS), effective Jan. 1, 2020.
Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment in Michigan totaled approximately 879,000 in October, an increase of 14,000 beneficiaries since July.
Weekly news and updates from the MHA.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a call from 2 to 3 p.m. EST Nov. 14 for clinical diagnostic laboratories, including hospital outreach laboratories, regarding data reporting for the Clinical Diagnostic Test Payment System in 2020.
U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer ordered the Trump administration Oct. 21 to reverse Medicare payment cuts that were implemented Jan. 1, 2019, for clinic visits provided at off-campus hospital outpatient departments.
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services recently released proposed revisions to the federal anti-kickback and physician self-referral (Stark law) rules. These revisions are intended to allow flexibility in value-based payment arrangements and coordinated care.
Upcoming events and important healthcare news for the week of Oct. 7.
Weekly news and updates from the MHA.
A federal judge recently ruled in favor of hospitals in the December 2018 lawsuit filed by the American Hospital Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, Mercy Health Muskegon and several others.
The MHA’s draft comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the proposed rule to update the Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) are available online.
Healthcare data analytics and policy firm DataGen hosted a national webinar Sept. 10 that reviewed the final rule to update the Medicare fee-for-service inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) for fiscal year (FY) 2020.
Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment in Michigan totaled approximately 865,000 in July, an increase of 10,000 beneficiaries since April.
Upcoming events and important healthcare news for the week of Aug. 12.
The CMS recently released final rules to update the Medicare fee-for-service prospective payment systems (PPSs) for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), and inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs) for fiscal year (FY) 2020, which begins Oct. 1, 2019.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a final rule to update the Medicare fee-for-service prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs) for fiscal year (FY) 2020.