The Senate has confirmed Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) by a vote of 55 to 44.
Brooks-LaSure is the first Black woman to lead the agency...
CMS announced it will be reweighting the cost performance category under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) from 15 percent to zero percent for the 2020 performance period to provide...
CMS announced that it will delay the effective date of a final rule updating the definition of “reasonable and necessary” and the guidelines surrounding the Medicare Coverage of Innovative...
CMS has raised the Medicare payment rate for certain COVID-19 antibody infusions and included a new payment policy for at-home administration, which will have a higher payment rate compared to other...
CMS is proposing to increase Medicare hospital inpatient rates by $2.5 billion next fiscal year, in addition to bolstering the rural healthcare workforce and health equity reporting.
The rate increase...
The healthcare system is at a critical point in its transition to value-based care a decade after implementation of the Affordable Care Act and its Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI),...
A two percent cut to Medicare reimbursement will be paused until the end of the year, CMS recently announced.
The announcement via the MLN Connects newsletter on April 16th stated that the Medicare...
Many hospitals are not complying with the CMS price transparency rule more than four months after its passage, according to a new KFF analysis that calls for data standardization.
Put into effect on...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has announced its support of President Biden’s pick for CMS Administrator, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, ahead of the confirmation hearing this week.
The...
CMS has announced that it will not be soliciting any more applications for the Global and Professional Direct Contracting Models slated to launch on January 1, 2022.
Organizations that had already...
CMS has proposed a $444 million increase in Medicare payments to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in the federal fiscal year (FY) 2022, according to a new proposed rule.
The rule released late...
CMS has released the proposed rules for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Prospective Payment System and the Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Prospective Payment System for fiscal year (FY)...
CMS has started recouping Medicare payments it fronted to healthcare providers last year during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a recent MLN Matters newsletter, the agency stated that it has begun...
UPDATED 04/16/2021 CMS is temporarily holding claims from providers in anticipation of legislation that will extend the suspension of the 2 percent Medicare sequester, according to a recent...
CMS has pushed back the application cycle by a year for a new rural-focused accountable care organization (ACO) model.
In an email sent yesterday, CMS said it has delayed the request for applications...
CMS has shared the final list of 184 public and private ambulance providers and suppliers selected to participate in the agency’s Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport (ET3) Model, an...
UPDATED 03/16/21 CMS has significantly increased Medicare reimbursements rates for the administration of new COVID-19 vaccines in an effort to accelerate rollout, according to a new...
The Biden administration has paused several prominent value-based reimbursement models run by the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI) to review model details, according to several updates provided on model...
When hospitals in the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program (HACRP) were stratified by social risk, value-based penalties for safety-net hospitals decreased, according to a new study published...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is seeking immediate relief from UnitedHealthcare’s new benefit design program that would restrict in-network diagnostic providers.
The hospital group...