Under a final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, hospital outpatient facilities and ambulatory surgical centers will get a 2.9% Medicare pay increase next year, up from the ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services delivered a Phase 3 reprieve of sorts in mid July. Regulators eased or eliminated several proposed changes, while seeking delay for other Requirements of ...

Nancy Tuders, FACDONA, IP-BC, AS-BC and QAPI-BC Q: I am a DON at a facility with a new administrator who has not been very engaged in our QAPI meetings. What can I share with her to make our meetings ...

The American Hospital Association has criticized the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for its Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) final rule, saying the increase for ...

At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 28, Sandra Jones, FHFMA, LHRM, CASC, owner, Ambulatory Strategies, Inc., and an executive vice president with ASD Management ...

As a Condition for Participation in the Medicare program, hospitals must establish and maintain a Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program. To meet QAPI requirements under 42 CFR ...

This story was written by Carla Daley Shehata, RN, BSN, vice president of operations for Regent Surgical Health. With the implementation of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services 2009 ...