Medicare
On March 15, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) released its annual report on the commission’s recommendations for Fiscal Year 2024 Medicare payment updates.
Earlier this month the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) released its annual March report on the commission’s recommendations for Fiscal Year 2024 Medicare payment updates. Some recent media articles have lazily used the report to suggest that “hospitals’ financial situations are not…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) March 15 announced 27 prescription drugs for which it will lower Part B beneficiary coinsurance, beginning April 1 through June 30, 2023, as required by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) March 15 announced 27 prescription drugs for which it will lower Part B beneficiary coinsurance, beginning April 1 through June 30, 2023, as required by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This is a table of those drugs.
This April through June under the Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare will reduce the coinsurance amount for 27 Part B prescription drugs from 20% to somewhere between 10% and 19.9%, depending on the drug, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today.
In comments submitted Saturday, AHA generally supports the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ initial guidance implementing inflation rebates for certain single source drugs and biosimilar biological products covered by Medicare Part B, but recommends changes to prevent incentivizing…
AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ initial guidance regarding certain Inflation Reduction Act requirements.
Reps. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., and Terri Sewell, D-Ala., today introduced legislation that would repeal a Medicare rule that requires physicians at a Critical Access Hospital to certify that inpatients are likely to be discharged or transferred to another hospital within 96 hours. AHA has urged…
The president’s fiscal year 2024 budget will propose policies to keep Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund solvent for at least an additional 25 years by directing additional Medicare taxes and savings from prescription drug reforms to the HI Trust Fund, the White House announced today.…
In a report this week, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General identified 15 drug codes that in third-quarter 2022 met the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ criteria for substituting a lower Medicare price for certain Part B drugs.