On February 21, 2024, CMS published a transmittal on its website with instructions for Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) to implement CMS’s final rule, issued June 9, 2023, concerning the treatment of the Part C days...more
In a Federal Register publication last month, CMS announced that it intended to retroactively adopt a change to its Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) regulation. Specifically, it proposed adopting a 2014 change...more
On August 6, 2020, CMS published a proposed regulation that would require patient days attributable to Medicare Part C beneficiaries (Part C days) to be counted in the Medicare fraction of the disproportionate share hospital...more