Medicare
The Department of Health and Human Services \(HHS\) recently released its report to Congress on value-based purchasing.
Physician fee schedule final rule also released
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.
On July 16, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released two rules with major changes affecting ambulatory surgical centers \(ASCs\).
Yesterday we sent you an AHA Advocacy Action Alert on a letter that Sens. Salazar \(D-CO\) and Pat Roberts \(R-KS\) are asking their colleagues to sign opposing two provisions in the fiscal year \(FY\) 2008 Medicare inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule.
A summary of the Families USA's position on the health care debate as of April 17, 2007.
A summary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services's position on the health care debate as of April 17, 2007
AHA Special Bulletine Attachment March 2, 2007
President Bush's proposed fiscal year 2008 budget proposes major reductions to the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Released this morning, the budget includes more than 0 billion in Medicare cuts to hospital services alone, including cuts to the inpatient and outpatient updates, rehabilitation…
On February 2, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) publishedproposed revisions to the Medicare wage index occupational mix survey to beused from July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008.