Posted by Jason Greis on March 1, 2010 under Articles | 
On March 1, 2010, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (“MedPAC” or the “Commission”) released its 2010 Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (the “Final Report”). The purpose of the Final Report is to recommend annual Medicare payment updates for the following nine Medicare fee-for-service (“FFS”) payment systems: hospitals, physicians, ambulatory surgery centers, outpatient dialysis services, hospices, skilled nursing facilities, home health services, inpatient rehabilitation facility services and long-term acute care hospital services. Read More...
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Posted by Jason Greis on December 14, 2009 under Articles |
On Friday, December 11, 2009, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (“MedPAC”) released its draft recommendation to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) to forgo any market basket update to payment rates for long-term acute care hospitals (“LTACH”) for the 2011 rate year (“RY”) (see meeting transcript). MedPAC found that profit margins on Medicare cases averaged 3.4% during RY 2008 and projected that Medicare margins will increase, on average, to 5.8% in RY 2010 with expected improvements in documentation and coding and recent changes to an updated classification system (i.e. MS-LTC-DRGs). Read More...
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