Hospital Outpatient & Ambulatory Surgical Center Proposed Payment Rule - Comment by September 13

CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES (CMS) Special Edition – Friday, July 15, 2022 CMS Proposes Rule to Advance Health Equity, Improve Access to Care, & Promote Competition and Transparency CMS is proposing actions to advance health equity and improve access to care in rural communities by establishing policies for Rural Emergency Hospitals (REH) and providing for payment for certain behavioral health services furnished via communications technology. Additionally, in line with President Biden's Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy, the calendar year 2023 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System proposed rule includes proposed enhanced payments under the OPPS and the Inpatient Prospective Payment System for the additional costs of purchasing domestically made NIOSH-approved surgical N95 respirators and a comment solicitation on competition and transparency in our nation's health care system. More Information: Press release Proposed rule fact sheet REH fact sheet Proposed rule Report a problem viewing this newsletter. The Medicare Learning Network®, MLN Connects®, and MLN Matters® are registered trademarks of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Paid for by HHS. Please share this important information with your colleagues and encourage them to subscribe. You can read previous issues in the archive. You're getting this message because you subscribed to get email updates from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Update your subscriptions, modify your password or email address, or stop subscriptions at any time on your Subscriber Preferences Page. You will need to use your email address to log in. If you have questions or problems with the subscription service, please contact subscriberhelp.govdelivery.com. This service is provided to you at no charge by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This email was sent to edwardlorilla1986.paxforex@blogger.com using GovDelivery Communications Cloud 7500 Security Boulevard · Baltimore MD 21244