The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It oversees the nation's major healthcare programs, including Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program...
Established as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicare’s Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) attempts to create an incentive for hospitals to cut down the number of readmissions they have for various types of acute care. As of 2017, these types of...
Medicare Hospice CAP Demands and Appeals Beginning in 1982, Medicare began offering a hospice benefit to covered individuals needing end of life palliative care. Provisions for Medicare hospice reimbursement were set out in Hospice Statute of 1982. Under the system,...
