As we move to the year of 2017, long-term care operators are confronting change on every front. CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) will need changes in care delivery as well as how providers or contributors are reimbursed for the care. Those providers will be well-positioned to react and successful in care delivery who are aware and understand the changes. Newly finalized rules and regulations point to key changes for long term care providers. Latest Requirements for Participation for Long Term Care involve several other latest needs for nursing facility providers, involving creating a baseline care policy with forty-eight hours of admission of a new sufferer.
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Alere Inc, a diagnostic company, has said on the day of Friday that the Medicare enrollment of one of its units had been revoked effective Nov. 4 by CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), which said the unit had submitted claims for 211 dead sufferers.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the recently updated payment rates and policy modifications in the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System for calendar year (CY) 2017 on the day of November 1. This ultimate final rule with comment time period involves a number of proposed modifications that would impact the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. On November 14, this final rule will be published and the comments will be accepted until the day of December 31.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized the updated payment rates and policy modifications today in the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System and Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) for calendar year (CY) 2017. These modifications will make better the quality of care Medicare sufferers got by better supporting their physicians and other health care providers and depict a broader Administration-wide method to develop a health care system that will give rise to better care, smarter spending, and healthier people.
5 new contracts for controversial recovery audit contractor program of Medicare have been awarded by CMS recently.
Performant Recovery and Cotiviti are the proposed awardees, which will both operate in 2 areas in the U.S., and HMS Federal Solutions. Veteran contractor CGI Group won’t return and it is not clear if the company re-bid. |
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