Medicare paid new hospitals three times more for their capital costs than they would have been paid under the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS), according to an audit report from the Office ...

CMS has finalized a 2.6% payment increase for inpatient services, boosted DSH payments, established new interoperability rules for prior authorization, and confirmed the launch of a controversial ...

Alongside their annual criticisms of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ annual pay rate increase for inpatient care, hospital groups are pushing the agency to reconsider a mandatory ...