On November 20, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) again approved the Kentucky HEALTH 1115 demonstration. Kentucky HEALTH was the first Section 1115 demonstration that CMS approved with a work and community engagement requirement as a condition
On November 2, 2018, CMS published its CY 2019 physician fee schedule final rule. The final rule implements a number of significant changes to the way practitioners receive reimbursement for items and services provided to Medicare beneficiaries, including:
We previously summarized certain provisions of CMS’s CY 2019 OPPS/ASC final rule published on November 2. See here. In this final rule CMS significantly expands its Medicare site-neutral payment policy beginning January 1, 2019.
As we previously described, CMS
On November 2, CMS published its CY 2019 hospital outpatient prospective payment and ambulatory surgical center payment systems and quality reporting programs final rule.
In the final rule CMS implements its proposal to pay clinic visit services performed in excepted
Earlier this summer the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its Calendar Year (CY) 2019 home health agency (HHA) and home infusion therapy supplier payment updates proposed rule. On October 31, CMS published its CY 2019 final