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CMS Proposes FY 2022 Payment Policies for Hospitals, Extending Add-on Payments, Adding GME Slots, and Repealing Market-Based Data Collection

On the evening of April 27, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed rule, Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Final Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2022 Rates (link), which updates the FY 2022 payment systems and [...] Read More

Hospitals Post Sticker Prices Online – Transparency or Confusion?

When the federal government began requiring hospitals to post their prices at the beginning of this year, CMS Administrator Seema Verma praised the initiative and declared that revealing this financial information would “. . . empower patients.”  Three months into the effort, do consumers have more transparency and choice, is there increased price competition among [...] Read More