Medicare uses the 2-midnight rule to determine whether to bill a hospital stay under Part A or Part B. This rule has implications for both costs and coverage. Original Medicare consists of Part A ...
A coalition of health-care systems, led by Novant Health Inc., has agreed to another stay in their lawsuit against the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services involving the “two ...
CMS has issued its inpatient prospective payment systems final rule for fiscal year 2017, which does away with the two-midnight rule’s inpatient pay cuts. The 2,434-page rule also includes rate ...