As 2019 draws to a close, and as revenue integrity professionals and their organizations look to the future, an important set of decisions and changes await. Among the largest is that to come in 2021 when the new price transparency requirements for hospitals will be in place. CMS finalized the...Read More »
CMS is automatically reprocessing 2019 hospital claims for certain services provided at grandfathered off-campus provider-based departments (PBD) after a federal judge vacated portions of the 2019 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) final rule. However, the agency has filed an appeal...Read More »
CMS is moving forward with multiple policies—effectively based on reducing reimbursement to hospitals—that have been deemed unlawful in court, according to the 2020 OPPS final rule, released Friday, November 1.Read More »