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Even with PHE extension, providers worry about early demise of nurse aide waiver - News

Anne Henry, LeadingAge PA HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra Monday extended the COVID-19 related Public Health Emergency, allowing the continuance of several healthcare waivers the skilled nursing sector has come to rely upon since the coronavirus began spreading last March. The PHE notably ensures vaccines can continue to be administered under emergency use authorization, providers can access emergency funding, and states can request use of federal resources including the military and supply stockpiles for another 90 days. At least for now, it also adds time to waivers granted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ governing hiring, admissions and assessment practices. But as the agency has already shown once this year, it has the authority to revoke those Section 1135 waivers before the emergency officially ends.

CMS Proposes Cut to Conversion Factor in Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

email article WASHINGTON The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed 2022 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) rule for Medicare would lower the amount physicians are paid under fee-for-service Medicare and change the requirements for incentives under the Quality Payment Program. The changes, announced at 8 p.m. Tuesday, include a decrease in the conversion factor the multiplier that Medicare applies to relative value units (RVUs) to calculate reimbursement for a particular service or procedure under Medicare s fee-for-service system. Due to budget neutrality changes required by law and the expiration of a 3.75% payment increase provided by Congress, the proposed CY [calendar year] 2022 PFS conversion factor is $33.58, a decrease of $1.31 from the CY 2021 PFS conversion factor of $34.89, CMS said in a fact sheet. The PFS conversion factor reflects the statutory update of 0.00% and the adjustment necessary to account for changes in relative value units an

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