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CMS releases FY 2020 IPPS and LTCH PPS final rule

By Jeff Wurzburg (US), Mark Faccenda (US) and Thomas Dowdell (US) on August 9, 2019 Posted in Regulatory

On August 2, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS) final rule (CMS-1716-F). The final rule is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on August 16, 2019. … Continue reading

Allina Update: Supreme Court holds Medicare statute requires notice and comment for DSH payment change

By Yvonne Puig (US), Thomas Dowdell (US), Frances Morgan (US) and Jeff Wurzburg (US) on June 4, 2019 Posted in News from DC

In a decision with potentially far reaching implications for Medicare hospital reimbursement, on June 3 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-1 against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) in Azar v. Allina Health Services. The Court affirmed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decision that vacated a rate calculation … Continue reading