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Healthcare experts, such as Caitlin Sheetz, director and head of Analytics for ADVI, are still combing through everything in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long Term Care Hospital proposed rule released last week.
There s much for hospitals to like, as the inpatient rule stabilizes reporting requirements to pre-COVID-19 levels and extends add-on payments for 14 technologies. Everybody for the most part is pleased, Sheetz said, though it s still too early to know what hospitals will be submitting as comments to CMS, due June 28.
One aspect that has gotten the attention of providers is CMS s repeal of the reporting mandate having to do with hospitals disclosing their privately-negotiated rates with insurers.
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Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and analyses; and other health policy news.
Week in Review Highlight of the Week:
This week, CMS released its FY 2022 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Rates Proposed Rule. Read more about the rule and other news below.
I. Regulations, Notices & Guidance
On April 26, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued guidance entitled,
Nonclinical Testing of Individualized Antisense Oligonucleotide Drug Products for Severely Debilitating or Life-Threatening Diseases; Draft Guidance for Sponsor-Investigators. FDA is publishing this draft guidance to help sponsor-investigators with developing the nonclinical information that FDA recommends to support an investigational new drug application (IND) for certain individual
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CMS Proposes Additional Payment for Shockwave’s Coronary IVL in Hospital Inpatient Cases
Shockwave Medical, Inc.April 28, 2021 GMT
SANTA CLARA, CALIF., April 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Shockwave Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: SWAV), a pioneer in the development of Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) to treat severely calcified cardiovascular disease, announced today that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Fiscal Year 2022 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule, which recommended that coronary IVL cases be eligible for incremental payment via a New Technology Add-On Payment (NTAP) from CMS when performed in the hospital inpatient setting. The proposed annual rule is now open for public comment and is expected to be finalized and in effect by October 1, 2021.