Newly Proposed Rule Regarding Organ Acquisition Payment Policies
By EsqSocial Corporation 19/05/21
On April 27, 2021, CMS issued its Fiscal Year 2022 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Rates Proposed Rule (CMS-1752-P), in which it proposes several changes to organ acquisition payment policies that would enable Medicare to more accurately record and pay its share of organ acquisition costs. Sparked by OIG concerns that some organ procurement organizations (OPOs) may have billed Medicare for unallowable expenditures and similar...
By: Baker Ober Health Law