federal register • 05 october 2015

CMS has published on the federal register:

  • A Correction to a Final Rule for the Medicare Program: FY 2016 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update and Hospice Quality Reporting Requirements
  • A Correction to the Final Rule for Medicare Program:
    1. Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2016 Rates;
    2. Revisions of Quality Reporting Requirements for Specific Providers, including Changes Related to the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program;
    3. Extensions of the Medicare-Dependent, Small Rural Hospital Program and the Low-Volume Payment Adjustment for Hospitals
  • A Correction to a Final Rule for the Medicare Program:
    1. Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities for FY 2016,
    2. SNF Value-Based Purchasing Program,
    3. SNF Quality Reporting Program, and
    4. Staffing Data Collection
  • A Notice of Agency Information Collection Activities concerning Off-cycle Submission of Summaries of Model of Care Changes