Policy and Legislation
The growth poses challenges to providers' credit quality, given growing risks to reimbursement from MA plans.
The suit claims rural nursing homes in particular may be forced to shut down due to a lack of qualified candidates in the labor market.
The suit alleges Humana committed to providing the required level of coverage, but in fact planned to provide less.
CMS said that if the new prices had been in effect last year, Medicare would have saved an estimated $6 billion across the 10 drugs.
Proposed regulation violates a federal law that prohibits giving public benefits to illegal immigrants, complaint says.
CMS finalized the update to the IRF PPS payment rates by 3%, based on the final IRF market basket update of 3.5%.
There will be a net increase of 4.2%, or approximately $1.4 billion, in Medicare Part A payments to SNFs next year.
The legislation would introduce new safeguards and close tax loopholes that benefit real estate investment trusts.