CMS issued a rule yesterday that will update Medicare payment policies and rates for inpatient stays in acute-care hospitals under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System and hospitals paid under the ...

CMS’ Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program was designed to pay hospitals a higher annual update to their payment rates for successfully reporting and meeting designated quality measures. In ...

The data had been used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to assess the quality of care provided to children ...

Beginning Jan. 1, 2013, hospitals and health systems will be required to report data on 76 measures for CMS’ Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program to receive full Medicare reimbursement in 2015 ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is asking healthcare providers for information to aid in the design of a new survey of patient experience in long-term care hospitals. The information ...

CMS has finalized a 2.6% payment increase for inpatient services, boosted DSH payments, established new interoperability rules for prior authorization, and confirmed the launch of a controversial ...

In the letter, CMS announced that the Child and Adult Core Set of Health Quality Measures for Medicaid and the Children's ...

Psychiatric facilities will get a 2.4% increase under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposed rule for the inpatient psychiatric facility prospective payment system for fiscal year ...