This update also includes updates to the Hospice Quality Reporting Requirements. New quality measures are added Information regarding the Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) is also included. Read the Final Rule in the Federal Register for August 5, 2016
Proposed Rule Details BNAF phase-out. This proposed rule would implement the fifth year of the seven-year BNAF phase-out, reducing the BNAF by 15 percent, for a total reduction of 70 percent since FY 2010. The BNAF was implemented in 1997, when the former Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), now CMS, moved from an outdated […]