CMS proposes cost-reporting instructions implementing COVID-related IME bed counting rules
By EsqSocial Corporation 04/05/21
On April 30, 2020, CMS relaxed its bed-counting regulations so that teaching hospitals that temporarily increased their number of available beds to respond to the influx of COVID-19 patients would not experience reductions in IME payment amounts. Specifically, for the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), a hospital's available bed count “is considered to be the same as it was on the day before the COVID-19 PHE was declared.” CMS revised § 412.105(d)(1) to exclude “beds...
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