Skilled Nursing Facility PPS
The Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee recently submitted four recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services, including a recommendation that the agency test the AHA-supported Advanced Care Model to support people with advanced illness. The Coalition…
The CMS April 27 issued proposed rules for the inpatient rehabilitation facility and skilled-nursing facility prospective payment systems for fiscal year 2019.
AHA comments to provide feedback on the work that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) are undertaking to develop a unified post-acute care prospective payment system (PAC PPS). AHA's post-acute care membership…
Medicare will cover skilled nursing facility care without a three-day inpatient hospital stay for certain beneficiaries affected by this month’s wildfires in southern California, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today.
Learn more about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule for CY 2018 for Home Health PPS, as well as the final rules for Inpatient Rehabilitation, Skilled Nursing, and Long Term Care Hospital prospective payment systems for FY 2018.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission this week discussed several draft recommendations for Congress, which it could vote on in January. The proposals would make recommendations to increase payment rates for hospital inpatient and outpatient services by 1.25% in 2019; eliminate the 2019 and 2020…
Participants in a national collaborative to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections in nursing homes say the project empowered them to work with physicians and other team members to implement evidence-based practices to prevent and control infections, despite occasional challenges with…
The Medicare Part A deductible for inpatient hospital services will increase by $24 in calendar year 2018, to $1,340, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Friday. The Part A daily coinsurance amounts will be $335 for days 61-90 of hospitalization in a benefit period; $670 for…
This critique examines the prototype Medicare payment system for post-acute care (PAC) developed by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) in 2016.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 31 issued its fiscal year (FY) 2024 final rule for the skilled nursing facility (SNF) prospective payment system (PPS).