Mar 26, 2013 | Acute Rehabilitation News
This proposed rule would implement section 3004 of the Affordable Care Act, which establishes a new quality reporting program that provides for a 2 percent reduction in the annual increase factor beginning in 2014 for failure to report quality data to the Secretary of...
Mar 26, 2013 | Acute Rehabilitation News
View the whole report at www.cms.hhs.gov . OVERVIEW: On July 31, 2009, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule updating payment rates and policies for services furnished to people with Medicare in inpatient rehabilitation facilities...
Mar 26, 2013 | Acute Rehabilitation News
Tightened restrictions in the 75% rule have resulted in 30,000 fewer Medicare patients receiving care in inpatient rehabilitation facilities, according to a report released jointly today by the Federation of American Hospitals and the American Hospital Association,...
Mar 26, 2013 | Acute Rehabilitation News
By Caralyn Davis Inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) have received millions in improper payments due to miscoded claims–and a total lack of action by Medicare contractors to correct the errors, according to a recent report from the Office of Inspector...
Mar 26, 2013 | Acute Rehabilitation News
HealthSouth Corp. said President Barack Obama’s deficit-reduction plan, which would reinstate the Medicare compliance threshold for inpatient rehabilitation hospitals to 75%, could lead the company to close a small number of hospitals. Executives at Birmingham,...
