Article: CMS Projects That Total Medicare Payment for Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Will Be $30.1 Billion during CY 2009.

Article: Here comes PPS: post-acute providers gear up for ...
Modern Healthcare;  February 24, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Post-acute providers gear up for prospective payment When Tammy Beers sends her nurses into the field ... have labored under for more than a decade: a prospective payment system. Several proposals aimed at reducing the rate ...

Article: Medicare outpatient PPS system highlighted. (Health Care ...
Healthcare Financial Management;  February 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... advisor Janet Wellham discussed ambulatory payment classifications (APCs) for Medicare's new outpatient prospective payment system (PPS). She stated that the PPS system will be based on the 3M/HIS ambulatory patient groups. The 300 ...

Article: Of PPS, DRGs and beginnings; Reflecting on the wide-ranging ...
Modern Healthcare;  September 29, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... can attribute only one of those to Medicare's prospective payment system. Twenty years ago, I was fresh out of graduate ... a new staff writer position to cover some new payment system for old people. And the third was with a daily ...

Article: Understanding the Medicare PPS.(prospective payment ...
McKnight's Long-Term Care News;  June 30, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... last July: the Medicare prospective payment system. Not since implementation ... and reimbursement. The prospective payment system was introduced to cut ... for inflation). The prospective payment system hit providers at a time ...

Article: PPS marked by low rates, implementation ...
McKnight's Long-Term Care News;  April 14, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... implemented Medicare prospective payment system. Low rates, coupled ... intermediaries have made the prospective payment system a nightmare for many ... remaining 13% said that the prospective payment system was just another of the ...

Article: New PPS on the way; New prospective payment ...
Modern Healthcare;  April 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Jennifer Lubell A much anticipated proposal on the inpatient prospective payment system for acute-care hospitals was expected to be released this week after failing to make an appearance last week. And people in ...

Article: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) staff has ...
Healthcare Financial Management;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) staff has advised HFMA that the prospective payment system (PPS) for psychiatric hospitals and distinct units will not be ready for its planned implementation for cost-reporting periods ...