Proposed FY 2010 Hospice Medicare Reimbursement Rates
The Hospice Medicare proposed reimbursement rates for Fiscal Year 2010 were published by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in the April 24, 2009 Federal Register. Please select the file below for the live link to the Federal Register. See Directors Memo 09-28 for more info.
CR 6440
Please see Directors Memo 09-19 for more info
CR 6418
See Directors Memo 09-12 for more information - 2009 Revised Hospice Wage Index by County
MedPac 2009
Reforming Medicare's hospice benefit is located in Chapter 6, pages
345-376.
MedPAC
Transcript of January 9th MedPAC Meeting
CoPs Interim Final Interpretive Guidelines as of Jan 09
CoPs Interim Interpretive Guidelines 12-08
Hospice on MedPAC Agenda, November 6, 2008
Presentation mentioned in Directors Memo 08-49, November 10, 2008 titled "A critical evaluation of the Medicare hospice benefit" by Jim Matthews, Kim Neuman and Zach Gumer
MedPAC
Hospice Healthcare spending and the Medicare Program, June 2008
2009 Federal Regstr Proposed Rulemaking - Hsp Wge Indx Bdgt Nutr Fctr
CR 5971
Clarification of Physician Signatures on Certification of Terminal Illness
MedPAC
Principal Policy Analyst Jim Mathews' PowerPoint presentation on hospice payment issues
CMS - CR 5567
Sample letter to CMS regarding CR 5567. Please see Directors Memos 7-23, 7-26, and 7-27 for more info.
Stark Law Phase III
The Phase III regulations that implement the Stark Law's prohibitions against physician self-referrals are scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on September 5, 2007. These regulations contain a number of very significant changes to the Stark regulatory scheme.
CMS Change Request 5567
CR 5567 mandates changes to the billing manual, impacting data collection and reporting required of hospice providers.
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Federal Regulation