In a long-awaited ruling, on May 6, 2019, Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia declined to vacate the Secretary’s CYs 2018 and 2019 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS)...more
5/15/2019
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On April 23, 2019, CMS issued its annual Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule for FY 2020 (the Proposed Rule), which will affect...more
4/30/2019
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CMS intends to release its second enrollment period for the Bundled Payment for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced payment model sometime in April 2019, allowing for eligible providers to participate beginning January 1, 2020...more
CMS made available the First Annual Report (the Report) evaluating performance year one of the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model. Although performance year one was abbreviated (only April 1, 2016, to...more