Thousands of registered nurses and other health care workers at Sacramento-based Sutter Health blasted their employer over payroll errors that they say have shorted them on wages for more than a month.
On August 1, CMS issued its fiscal year (FY) 2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule, applying to discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2022. In the accompanying announcement, CMS said that the FY 2023 IPPS “updates Medicare payments and policies for hospitals, drives high-quality, person-centered care, and promotes fiscal stewardship of the Medicare program.” They added that the rule also finalizes new measures encouraging hospitals to build health equity.
Inpatient and outpatient prospective payment system hospitals, inpatient psychiatric facilities and PPS-exempt cancer hospitals have until Aug. 30 to preview their data for the October update to Care Compare.
The American Medical Association (AMA) today announced an update to Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)®, the leading medical terminology code set for describing health care procedures and services, that includes a new laboratory test code for the orthopoxvirus and two codes for the vaccines being utilized to prevent monkeypox infection.
