On August 2, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2014 IPPS Final Rule. In the final rule, CMS made a few revisions from the proposed rule related to the Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) calculation
On October 20, 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its final rule for Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) under the Medicare Shared Savings Program enacted in 2010 as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act . The proposed rule for this program, published April 7, 2011, created a large number of comments that have led to several significant changes to the final regulations
The final rule for changes to the hospital inpatient acute care prospective payment system (PPS) for federal fiscal year 2012 was released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in early August. This release included two changes related to the amount of defined benefit pension costs a hospital is allowed to claim on its Medicare cost report. One of the changes relates to calculating allowable pension costs claimed on a PPS hospital’s wage index.
On August 1, 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the final rule for changes to the hospital acute care prospective payment system (PPS) for federal fiscal year (FY) 2012. As was discussed in a prior BKD article on this topic, CMS included several changes affecting the hospital wage index computation for FY 2013