Download or read book Medicare Programs - Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities for Fy 2015 (Us Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (Cms) (2018 Edition) written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare Programs - Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities for FY 2015 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Medicare Programs - Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities for FY 2015 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This final rule updates the payment rates used under the prospective payment system (PPS) for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) for fiscal year (FY) 2015. In addition, it adopts the most recent Office of Management and Budget (OMB) statistical area delineations to identify a facility's urban or rural status for the purpose of determining which set of rate tables will apply to the facility, and to determine the SNF PPS wage index including a 1-year transition with a blended wage index for all providers for FY 2015. This final rule also contains a revision to policies related to the Change of Therapy (COT) Other Medicare Required Assessment (OMRA). This final rule includes a discussion of a provision related to the Affordable Care Act involving Civil Money Penalties. Finally, this final rule discusses the SNF therapy payment research currently underway within CMS, observed trends related to therapy utilization among SNF providers, and the agency's commitment to accelerating health information exchange in SNFs. This book contains: - The complete text of the Medicare Programs - Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities for FY 2015 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section