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Teri Bedard, RT(R)(T), CPC, shares her highlights of the calendar year 2023 MPFS proposed rule and its potential impact on oncology/hematology.
ACCC Director Cancer Care Delivery and Health Policy Matt Devino, MPH, lays out the four key differences between the OCM and EOM that interested applicants need to consider.
On Aug. 4, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2021 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rules.
“In this town, we’ve seen healthcare become a political lightning rod,” U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) told attendees on March 5 at the ACCC 46th Annual Meeting & Cancer Center Business Summit (AMCCBS) in Washington, D.C. As our nation grapples with unprecedented challenges—both individually and collectively—posed by the world-wide novel COVID-19 outbreak, it seems as though lightning has …
Friday, Nov. 1 was a busy day for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and its Center for the Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). CMS released the final calendar year (CY) 2020 Hospital Outpatient Prospective System and Physician Fee Schedule final rules. Later that afternoon, CMMI posted an “informal” Request for Information on a proposal for the next iteration of an …
On Sept. 27, ACCC provided comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the agency’s proposed CY 2020 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) rules.
Calendar year (CY) 2020 begins the transition in the Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS) payment system away from fee-for-service reimbursement, which is affected by the changing conversion factor, to a payment system that is set with potential changes related to budget neutrality.
Drug pricing reform and a thorough analysis of healthcare spending have been the focus of healthcare leadership across the country since early 2018.
The future of healthcare is at a crossroads. In the past year, the Trump Administration and Congress have made several proposals to address the rising costs of healthcare and drugs­, which have the potential to dramatically affect the landscape of cancer care. Now more than ever, the voices of professionals on the front lines of cancer care are crucial to shaping the direction of future …
November 26, 2018 The Honorable Gus Bilirakis U.S. House of Representatives 2112 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Ben Ray Lujan U.S. House of Representatives 2231 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Dear Representative Bilirakis and Representative Lujan, On behalf of the undersigned organizations, representing …
In September 2018, the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to both the 2019 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rules. The arrival of autumn signals seasonal changes, but one constant is the policy implications of the proposed Medicare payment rules …
On July 25, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the CY 2019 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule, and we are seeing several efforts to continue the push towards “site neutral” payments in off-campus provider-based departments (PBDs). This rule was issued weeks after the CY 2019 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule, and the atypical lag time …
All eyes are on Congress in recent months with Affordable Care Act repeal and tax reform, but the real action—and consequential reimbursement decisions for ACCC cancer programs—is happening on the regulatory side.
While the 340B Program has grown, and reform has been widely debated by policymakers over the past decade, CMS’ rule proposes to fundamentally alter the program (notably a program that is not within CMS’ purview).