Medicare-Medicaid Reimbursement

March 8, 2013

Effect of Hospital Value-based Purchasing on Hospital Reimbursement in 2013

In response to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), formerly Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), uses payments based on Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Groups (MS-DRG) to improve hospital care quality.  The program is a new reimbursement law which CMS implemented through […]