This week’s Medicare updates include a final decision memo on an NCD for home use of oxygen to treat cluster headaches, a notice about CMS exercising enforcement discretion for certain SNF consolidated billing provisions, an interim final rule on new policies against surprise billing, and more!
H.R. 7898 became law on January 5, 2021, and amended the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act to require the secretary of HHS to consider certain recognized security practices of covered entities and business associates when making certain determinations, and for other purposes.
In December 2020, CMS announced that it would begin a Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) for inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) services. The goal: to improve detection and identification of Medicare fraud related to these services.
CMS finalizing plans to remove the inpatient-only list, only to propose a reversal less than a year later, has introduced challenges for case managers.
Nonprofit hospitals are falling short when it comes to completing community needs assessments required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to an August research letter published by JAMA Network Open.
