Medicare/Medicaid News
« Previous EntriesObama Chooses Health Policy Scholar, AHA Trustee, as the Director for Medicare and Medicaid
Friday, April 2nd, 2010WASHINGTON — President Obama will soon name Dr. Donald M. Berwick, an iconoclastic scholar of health policy, to run Medicare and Medicaid, the programs that serve nearly one-third of all Americans, administration officials said Saturday.
Revised Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Infection Control Surveyor Worksheets
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010The CMS Center for Medicaid and State Operations/Survey and Certification Group released a memo March 5, 2010, regarding Revised Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Infection Control Surveyor Worksheets. Click here for the revised Infection Control Worksheets…
CMS Manual System: Revised Appendix L, “Interpretive Guidelines for Ambulatory Surgical Centers” with Exhibit 351 Infection Control Surveyor Worksheet
Friday, January 8th, 2010Click here to read the document…
Limitation on Medicare Exception to Prohibition on Physician Referrals
Friday, October 16th, 2009Chairman’s Mark out of the Senate Finance Committee.
The following section is located on page 211. Not finalized as of 10-8-09.
TITLE IV—TRANSPARENCY AND PROGRAM INTEGRITY
Limitation on Medicare Exception to the Prohibition on Certain Physician Referrals for Hospitals
Current Law
Physicians are generally prohibited from referring Medicare patients…
ASC Focused Training
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009State Survey Agency Training
ASC Survey Process.
Click here to open the PPT…
States Fight Medicaid Expansion
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Some governors are pushing to scale back or kill proposals to expand Medicaid to provide health-care coverage to the uninsured, raising a new challenge to President Barack Obama’s effort to overhaul the system…
To read more of this article click the link below:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124571731912339159.html
Medicare Releases Proposed 2010 ASC Payments
Monday, July 6th, 2009Medicare has released its proposed 2010 ASC payment rates and policies. The proposed rule is available here: www.ascassociation.org/2010rule.pdf. CMS is proposing an inflation update of 0.6% (Medicare’s estimate of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers) and is not proposing to require ASC quality reporting in 2010. The ASC Association will provide further details…
Medicare National 2009 ASC Rates and HOPD Rates
Friday, May 8th, 2009Here is a Excel file that shows the ASC Rates and HOPD Rates for 2009.
( Can also be found on Advocacy and Policy page under Medicare)…
ASC Legislation Introduced
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009US Representatives Kendrick Meek (D-FL) and Wally Herger (R-CA) introduced legislation to expand the access that Medicare beneficiaries have to services performed in ASCs. If adopted, the Ambulatory Surgical Center Access Act of 2009 (H.R. 2049) would resolve the increasing discrepancy between hospital outpatient department (HOPD) and ASC payment rates
require comparable quality reporting standards…
Are You Ready for May 18?
Monday, May 4th, 2009A checklist of the changes in the ASC Medicare Conditions for Coverage, prepared by Mark Mayo, Executive Director of the ASC Association of Illinois.
Conditions for Coverage Checklist for May 18, 2009
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