by keith | Jul 25, 2023 | News and Updates
CMS has proposed a long-awaited remedy to make 340B hospitals whole for nearly five years of cuts under the Medicare outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) that the Supreme Court deemed unlawful in 2022. In welcome news, CMS has proposed to repay impacted...
by keith | Jun 28, 2022 | Medicaid Managed Care
Both The Medicaid and CHIP Access and Payment Commission and the Government Accountability Office have recently published recommendations for increasing transparency of managed care directed payment programs to facilitate closer evaluation of direct payment programs....
by keith | Jun 16, 2022 | 340B
The Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in American Hospital Association v. Becerra on June 15, 2022, concluding in a “straightforward” decision that the Medicare reimbursement cuts for certain separately-payable outpatient drugs implemented in the...
by keith | Apr 18, 2022 | DSH, Medicare, News and Updates
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its proposed inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) rule for fiscal year 2023, with changes that would impact reporting used to calculate Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments,...
by keith | Mar 16, 2022 | DSH, Medicaid, News and Updates
CMS published a Federal Register Notice on March 16, 2022 implementing a congressionally-mandated increase in Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) allotments for FYs 2020 and 2021 to account for the enhanced federal Medicaid matching rates during the public...
