It used to come annually. Every October, compliance officers across the country would delve into its pages to determine what the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) planned to investigate for the coming calendar year—and what their facility’s risk level might be.
More than a dozen academic, public health, and healthcare partners formed a coalition with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to launch Project Firstline, a national training collaborative to help...Read More »
Almost half of hospitals in the United States will be getting lower payments for Medicare patients due to their readmission history, according to an analysis reported in Kaiser Health News...Read More »
Earlier this summer, CMS resumed Medicare fee-for-service audits which had been suspended starting the end of March because of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE).Read More »
Some facilities that should have been penalized under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) weren’t and some that were probably shouldn’t have been, according to a new study...Read More »
