Several acute-care hospitals will likely have to pay back $54.4 million to Medicare after an investigation found that the program wrongly billed inpatient claims subject to the post-acute care ...

The lack of the correct patient discharge status code has been cited by Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) as a problem in the claims of inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs). The problem is ...

The bundled payment episode definitions in previous Medicare bundled payment initiatives such as the Medicare Participating Heart Bypass Demonstration and the Medicare Acute Care Episode Demonstration ...

BPCI participation did not significantly change the number of SNF partners or discharge concentration among hospitals. Hospitals may feel constrained by CMS requirements for patient choice, limiting ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . With copayments starting on day 21, researchers found that Medicare beneficiaries were more commonly discharged ...