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August 18, 2008
Featured This Week:
- Administration eases up on SCHIP penalties for states
- HHS proposes use of ICD-10 code sets
- CMS seeks to make permanent Medicare RAC program successful
- Hospice wage index, rate update finalized
- More accurate IRF payment method adopted for FY 2009
- SNFs to receive 3.4 percent increase in 2009
- CMS finalizes several Stark changes in IPPS final rule
Decisions and Developments:
- CMS Manuals
- DAB Decisions
August 11, 2008
Featured This Week:
- Final tables for IPPS delayed by MIPPA changes
- IPPS rule changes affect cost report, reclassifications
- OMHA hearing options fail to reduce caseloads
- Medicaid directors instructed on payment for "never events"
- Reimbursement methodology for new providers
- NPR adjustment rejected due to untimely request
- Settlement narrows scope of class action relief
- Challenge to standards for personal care to proceed
- DME supplier convicted of Medicare fraud
- EMTALA retaliation provision
- Correction to physician fee schedule
- Medicare Part D contracting for PSAOs reviewed
Decisions and Developments:
- CMS Manuals
- DAB Decisions
August 4, 2008
Featured This Week:
- "Never events" one key focus of IPPS final rule
- IRF, SNF final rules to publish Aug. 8
- Medicare pays more for medications under Part D plans
- Midyear benefit enhancements prohibited for MA plans
Decisions and Developments:
July 28, 2008
Featured This Week:
- CMS announces changes in wake of MIPPA law
- House approves delay in consideration of Medicare trigger bill
- RAC demonstration notes almost $1 billion in overpayments
- Senate examines goal of using health IT to improve clinical research
- Senators' plans for SCHIP resolution thwarted
- CMS to reward doctors for electronic prescribing
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