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On September 7, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released revised Critical Access Hospital \(CAH\) interpretive guidelines regarding rebuilding and relocating facilities, effective immediately.
Responding to public and congressional concerns about improper or undue influence that special interests and their hired lobbyists either appeared or were alleged to have had over high-ranking government officials, Congress in September adopted The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act.
The five-year anniversary of the Institute of Medicine \(IOM\)'s report To Err is Human is fast approaching. There was much media attention when IOM released this report on patient safety in 1999, with most of the headlines focusing on the nearly 98,000 people the report cited as having died…
Unions Push for Nurse Staffing Ratios, CNA/NNOC Set Sights on Texas
On September 14, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) publishedrevisions to the Medicare wage index occupational mix survey that covers the period from July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008.
The Internal Revenue Service \(IRS\) recently mailed to more than 200 tax-exemption organizations a questionnaire concerning post-issuance bond compliance and record retention practices.
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Changes contained in the final fiscal year \(FY\) 2008 Medicare inpatientprospective payment system \(PPS\) rule released August 1 by the Centers forMedicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) will take effect on Monday, October 1.
House and Senate negotiators today tentatively agreed on legislation that partially addresses our concerns about the inpatient prospective payment system \(IPPS\) cuts of 0 billion over five years in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' \(CMS\) IPPS rule for fiscal year 2008.