Hospitals instead will receive a one-time payment of 0.6 percent next year to offset the 0.2 percent reduction implemented from 2014 through 2016.
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AHA Slams CMS for ‘Unlawful’ Two-Midnight Rule Pay Reduction
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The American Hospital Association is highly critical of CMS’s decision to reduce IPPS payments as a result of implementing the two-midnight rule, with the organization seeking more information on the cut.
CMS delays enforcement of ‘two-midnight’ rule again
CMS to soften two-midnight rule, allow for exceptions
CMS is proposing that physicians be able to make case-by-case exceptions to the rule, classifying certain short stays as inpatient so that they would be paid under Medicare Part A.
HENRY KOTULA 