| Dear RHC Community,
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Proposed Rule. As a reminder, this annual rule provides regulatory updates to the fee schedule and also contains a significant section specifically for RHCs. We will be analyzing all of these RHC and related provisions and providing a full summary over the next few weeks! NARHC will later submit comments on behalf of the RHC community. If finalized, these changes would go into effect January 1, 2025. For a brief overview of what this proposed rule for RHCs, please see the list below. 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Proposed Rule
In addition to providing complete summaries, NARHC DC staff will be hosting an August webinar on all of these provisions to ensure that the RHC community is able to fully understand the proposed rules and provide any feedback to guide our formal comments to CMS. Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Proposed Rule In a busy regulatory week, CMS also released the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule. While there are no specific provisions for RHCs, there are several mentions of rural and provisions for Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs).
Hospitals interested in learning more about these provisions can review the CMS OPPS Fact Sheet. If you have any questions, please email [email protected]. |
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