Wednesday, October 14, 2026 - Updated Daily
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 - Updated Daily
It’s that time of year again where CMS begins to drop various rule proposals for updates to provider groups under PPS. From Hospitals, to SNFs, to Home Health and Hospice, each industry segment will see…
Back in early June, I wrote a post on how Medicare/CMS was intending to audit 5 claims from every participating SNF in the country. The audits would be staggered and conducted by MACs (Medicare Audit…
One quarter (three months and change) down and PDPM appears to be mostly positive for SNFs. CMS is reporting a higher average per diem payment level than under RUGs. Despite some added coding complexity, paperwork…
I spend a good (ok, large) amount of time working with non-profit and privately held health care, post-acute and seniors housing organizations. Nearly all of my work is at the C-level and above and frankly,…
Beginning yesterday, I’ve been following the news regarding CMS’ annual issuance of Final PPS rules for providers. Of greatest interest is the SNF Final Rule as it includes a completely new payment system, departing from…
Yesterday I wrote a quick post regarding the news that CMS was about to issue the SNF Final Rule for Fiscal Year 2019. Today, the text is available. Official publication in the Federal Register is…
Last Friday, CMS released the contents of its annual proposed rule updating the SNF PPS plus (as always), fine tuning certain related programmatic elements. Final Federal Register Publication is set for May 8. (Anyone wishing…
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