Special Bulletin
The 黑料正能量 Association (AHA) sends members Special Bulletins on the latest health care news, legislation, and advocacy opportunities for hospitals and health systems.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 31 issued a final rule for the inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system (PPS) for fiscal year (FY) 2020.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 30 issued the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system final rule for fiscal year 2020.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 29 issued a proposed rule that would update physician fee schedule payments for calendar year 2020.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 29 released the calendar year 2020 outpatient prospective payment system/ambulatory surgical center proposed rule.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 11 issued a proposed rule that would update the home health (HH) prospective payment system (PPS) for calendar year (CY) 2020. In accordance with the statutory mandate in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (BBA of 2018), last year鈥檚鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 10 issued a proposed rule that would establish a new alternative payment model (APM) for radiation oncology (RO) services delivered to Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries. The RO model would test whether prospective, bundled鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) July 10 announced five new CMMI payment models aimed at transforming kidney care so that patients with chronic kidney disease have access to high-quality, coordinated care. The proposed End-鈥
The White House June 24 released an executive order on 鈥渋mproving price and quality transparency in American health care.鈥 The executive order focuses on five policies:
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) released a revised version of the Lower Health Care Costs Act of 2019 (S.1895) 鈥 bipartisan legislation focused on reducing health care costs.
The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury (collectively, the departments) recently finalized new rules related to how employers may use health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) to provide health coverage to employees. In particular, the rule expands the uses of HRAs to鈥