House to Medicare: No cuts in hospital payments
Case Management Weekly, July 25, 2007
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Case Management Weekly!
The House of Representatives approved an amendment last week that would prohibit Medicare from implementing a 2.4% prospective reduction in hospital payments.
The bipartisan amendment, introduced by Reps. John Lewis (D-GA), Peter Welch (D-VT), and Jerry Weller (R-IL), passed by a vote of 412-12. "These extreme cuts in reimbursements, based on speculation rather than fact, will impose an added burden on all hospitals," Weller said in a statement.
CMS proposed the reduction in its May 3 proposed inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) rule to account for anticipated improvements in coding and documentation, according to the agency.
Source: Bureau of National Affairs
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Case Management Weekly!
Related Products
-
Case Management Weekly
Case Management Weekly is a free e-mail newsletter that offers news, resources, and Q&As to help case managers from all...
-
Case Management Monthly
This newsletter offers case studies, best practices, and how-to analysis to help case managers move patients through the...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- Capturing all necessary codes for IUD insertion and removal can be challenging
- Identify potential Medicaid RAC target areas
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- Topic: CMS, OESS post new security compliance review information, checklist
- Q&A: Acute respiratory failure diagnosis does not require intubation
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- E-mailed
-
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- CMS has reformulated payments for some bilateral procedures
- Oxygen Cylinder Storage Requirements
- Q&A: Acute respiratory failure diagnosis does not require intubation
- Q&A: Follow CMS' coding guidelines when using modifier -25
- Understand the spine to code back procedures correctly
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- Hospitals are not bound by InterQual criteria for determining patient status
- Searched