Summary: Details of Final Outpatient Payment Rule
What’s Happening: A comprehensive summary of the finalized payment updates and policy changes to the Medicare outpatient prospective payment system for calendar year 2024 is available.
What Else to Know: The provisions are generally effective Jan. 1, 2024.
Hear From DataGen About the Outpatient Payment Final Rule
What’s Happening: A DataGen webinar on Dec. 5 at noon (PT) will provide an overview of the calendar year 2024 outpatient prospective payment system final rule. What Else to Know: Registration is required.
Final Home Health Rule Reduces Impact of Behavioral Adjustments on Providers
What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued the final rule for the home health prospective payment system for calendar year 2024.
What else to know: Medicare payments to home health agencies will increase in the aggregate by 0.8% instead of the 2.2% decrease that was originally proposed.