Becker's Healthcare January 30, 2023
CMS has made several changes to the Medicare cost report for hospitals that include uncompensated care, Medicare disproportionate share hospital, bad debt and graduate medical education, according to legal news website JDSupra.
Transmittal 18, which CMS posted to its website Dec. 29, is likely to significantly affect hospital reimbursement for providers that are unprepared. The changes took effect for cost reporting periods beginning Oct. 1, 2022.
Four takeaways:
1. CMS has created another S-10 Worksheet. Part I aims to capture the entire hospital complex uncompensated care while Part II aims to capture hospital-only data, according to the report. CMS is considering using Part II data to calculate uncompensated care payments to hospitals in the future.
2. The agency...
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