How Minnesota Safety Net Providers Found Success in a Medicaid Alternative Payment Model
A combination of preparation; using data to stratify patients by risk category; and integrating primary care, behavioral health, and social services is helping Minnesota safety net providers succeed in a Medicaid accountable care initiative.
Ask the Experts Answer: Medicare Crossovers to Medicaid Bad Debt
If Medicaid contractualizes all or some of the amount deemed as coinsurance by Medicare, can the contractual amount be claimed as part of the bad debt on the cost report? Or, are we only able to claim the amount that Medicaid notes as being the copay or deductible on the cost report?
Ask the Expert: Medicare Payment for Home Health
Medicare does not distinguish payment by hospital-based or stand-alone home health agencies.
Ask the Expert: Recording Meaningful Use Payments
HFMA's Principles & Practices Board is working on publishing guidance on the recording of meaningful use payments.
Medicaid Healthcare-Acquired Condition Fact Sheet
This document discusses noteworthy aspects of the final rule prohibiting payments to states for the treatment of healthcare-acquired conditions, and authorizes states to identify other preventable conditions for which Medicaid payment will be prohibited.