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Modified: 2/10/2012
On February 7, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that Hospital Compare will now include data about how often central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) occur in hospital intensive care units across the country. [PERL 201202-21]
Modified: 2/9/2012
This national provider call on February 28 will discuss a sample report that simulates the fiscal year 2013 hospital value-based purchasing program and that shows what hospitals can expect when they receive their own reports. [PERL 201202-18]
Modified: 2/9/2012
The fiscal year (FY) 2012 inpatient prospective payment system (INP PPS) PC Pricer has been updated with new provider data, and is now available on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) website [PERL 201202-14]
Modified: 2/3/2012
Change request (CR) 7706 clarifies billing instructions regarding situations in which the beneficiary’s life time reserve (LTR) days have been exhausted during the non-outlier portion of an inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) stay. [MM7706]
Modified: 2/1/2012
Change request (CR) 7684 pertains to the changes necessary to implement multiple procedure payment reduction (MPPR) for physician services for certain diagnostic imaging procedures in critical access hospitals that have elected the optional method for outpatient billing. [MM7684]
Modified: 2/1/2012
Change request (CR) 7680 informs hospitals about the update to the fiscal year (FY) 2012 International Classification of Diseases 9th Edition Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes exempt from reporting present on admission (POA). [MM7680]
Modified: 2/1/2012
The "Swing Bed Services" fact sheet, which includes information on background, requirements that apply to hospitals and critical access hospitals, and swing bed services payments has been revised and is now available in downloadable format. [PERL 201201-55]
Modified: 1/31/2012
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed a process to permanently preserve the Medicare-funded residency slots from teaching hospitals that close. [PERL 201201-53]
Modified: 1/25/2012
The “Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program” fact sheet, which is designed to provide education on the hospital value-based purchasing program, and includes information on how Medicare will make incentive payments to hospitals in fiscal year (FY) 2013 is now available in hardcopy. [PERL 201201-42]
Modified: 1/25/2012
Three files (medical school codes, residency type codes, and IRISV3 operating instructions as of December 2011) in the IRIS software programs (IRISV3 and IRISEDV3) for collecting and reporting information on resident training in hospital and non-hospital settings have been updated. [PERL 201201-41]
Modified: 1/20/2012
The "Acute Care Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System" fact sheet has been revised and is available in downloadable format from the Medicare Learning Network. [PERL 201201-35]
Modified: 1/12/2012
Inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) claims from section 508 hospitals and special exemption hospitals affected by section 302 with discharge dates on or after October 1, 2011, through November 30, 2011, will be reprocessed no later than December 31, 2012. [PERL 201201-21]
Modified: 1/12/2012
This article was revised on January 10, 2012, to change the date in the last sentence on page 1 of the ”MLN MattersŪ” article to January 2012. All other information is the same. [MM7672]
Modified: 12/19/2011
This article is based on change request (CR) 7666, which informs Medicare contractors about corrections to make for several inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) Pricer problems. [MM7666]
Modified: 12/19/2011
The revised “Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital” fact sheet includes the following information: background; methods to qualify for an adjustment; number of beds in hospital determination; and payment adjustment formulas. [PERL 201112-34]
Modified: 10/27/2011
The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) makes free, hospital-specific comparative data reports available to inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs).
Modified: 10/9/2011
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has become aware that an error was made in the calculation of the wage index outmigration adjustment; this document clarifies the correction. [TDL 11384]
Modified: 4/12/2011
Critical access hospitals and long term care hopsitals may now use the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) for auditing and monitoring risk areas.
Modified: 2/15/2011
Short-term and long-term acute care hospitals may now use the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) for auditing and monitoring risk areas.
Modified: 4/16/2010
Follow this link for a list of hospital-related information hosted on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services site.
