In the 34th Edition of the User’s Guide for Short-Term Acute Care Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER)(ST PEPPER User’s Guide), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has included a new target area – Severe Malnutrition. Also effective with the Q3FY21 release, CMS is discontinuing the Transient Ischemic Attack target area. …
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Auditor Update: Part III Federal healthcare audits are back with a vengeance following a brief COVID-related pause. In August 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was required to resume Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) program activities that were temporarily suspended in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). Based upon the …
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), announced the distribution of approximately $9 billion in Provider Relief Fund (PRF) Phase 4 payments, from a pool of $17 billion, to health care providers who have experienced revenue losses and expenses related to the …
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