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CMS Releases Final Rule: Transforming Episode Accountability Model

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On August 1, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the Fiscal Year 2025 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule (“Final Rule”), finalizing the proposed Transforming Episode Accountability Model (“TEAM”). TEAM will begin on January 1, 2026.

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Skilled Nursing Update: CMS Finalizes Changes to SNF Value-Based Purchasing, SNF Quality Reporting Program and Civil Monetary Penalties

Hall Render

On August 7, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a final rule (“Final Rule”) that updated Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System (“SNF PPS”) for fiscal year (“FY”) 2024.

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CMS Finalizes its Proposal to Advance Interoperability and Improve Prior Authorization Processes

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On December 13, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a proposed rule, titled Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes (“Proposed Rule”), to improve patient and provider access to health information and streamline processes related to prior authorizations for medical items and services.

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CMS Releases 2025 IPPS Final Rule

Hall Render

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) will publish the 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (“IPPS”) Final Rule (“Final Rule”) in the Federal Register on August 28 with an effective date of October 1, 2024. By FY 2027, these changes will increase IPPS spending by $459 million.

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CMS Finalizes Graduate Medical Education Changes in 2025 IPPS Final Rule

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On August 28, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published the Fiscal Year 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (“IPPS”) Final Rule (“Final Rule”), which can be found here. Applications for this process are due March 31, 2025, and any FTE gained will be effective July 1, 2026.

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Skilled Nursing Update: CMS Proposes Changes to SNF Value-Based Purchasing, SNF Quality Reporting Program and Civil Monetary Penalties

Hall Render

On April 4, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a proposed rule (“Proposed Rule”) that would update Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System (“SNF PPS”) for fiscal year 2024.

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Modernizing Medicare to Take Advantage of the Latest Technologies

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Modernizing Medicare to Take Advantage of the Latest Technologies. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Modernizing Medicare to Take Advantage of the Latest Technologies. economy, and by 2026 the CMS Office of the Actuary projects that one in every five dollars spent in America will be spent on healthcare.