CMS Announcements
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued several announcements relating to
- Reduction of Regulations on Hospitals and Health Care Providers
- The new rules are being issued today by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The first rule revises the Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoPs) for hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs). CMS estimates that annual savings to hospitals and CAHs will be approximately $940 million per year.
- The second, the Medicare Regulatory Reform rule, will produce savings of $200 million in the first year by promoting efficiency. This rule eliminates duplicative, overlapping, and outdated regulatory requirements for health care providers.
- Proposed Rule Increasing Medicaid Reimbursement for Primary Care Services
- Primary care physicians serving Medicaid patients would see their Medicaid payments rise under a proposed rule announced by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Through the Affordable Care Act, the increase would bring Medicaid primary care service fees in line with those paid by Medicare. The boost would be in effect for calendar years (CY) 2013 and 2014. States would receive a total of more than $11 billion in new funds to bolster their Medicaid primary care delivery systems.
