CMS has published in the federal register:
- A Final Rule with comment period and Interim Final Rule with comment period for the Medicare Program:
- Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs;
- New Categories for Hospital Outpatient Department Prior Authorization Process;
- Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule: Laboratory Date of Service Policy;
- Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating Methodology;
- Physician-Owned Hospitals;
- Notice of Closure of Two Teaching Hospitals and Opportunity To Apply for Available Slots,
- Radiation Oncology Model; and
- Reporting Requirements for Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs)
- To Report COVID-19 Therapeutic Inventory and Usage and
- To Report Acute Respiratory Illness During the Public Health Emergency (PHE) for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)