A recent HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) report examines Medicare services provided during the Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) payment window – that is, the period when certain ...
While no healthcare sector is being spared from the reimbursement knife, the Value-Based Purchasing initiative is aimed squarely at hospitals. It is part of a larger reimbursement reduction movement ...
Jazz Pharma receives CMS approval for NTAP for Vyxeos liposome for injection to treat therapy-related acute myeloid leukaemia: Dublin Monday, August 6, 2018, 18:00 Hrs [IST] Jazz ...
The U.S. Medicare draft inpatient rule for fiscal 2026 discusses a number of coding proposals, although the agency seems disinclined to go along with a proposal to increase payment rates for TAVR ...
What is the cost of a knee implant in the inpatient setting? How much does Medicare pay for different types of cardiac valve procedures? How have Medicare inpatient volumes changed over time for ...
Overarching the U.S. hospital payment system is each individual hospital's "chargemaster." The data shown in Exhibit 1, for example, were taken from the chargemasters of the hospitals featured in the ...
Boris Vabson ([email protected]), Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. Andrew L. Hicks, Harvard University. Michael E. Chernew, Harvard University. Policy makers have been paying increasing ...
What is the cost of a knee implant in the inpatient setting? How much does Medicare pay for different types of cardiac valve procedures? How have Medicare inpatient volumes changed over time for ...