On January 29, NAHRI presented its first members-only quarterly call of the year, where members heard from revenue integrity experts on engaging clinical staff, chargemaster updates, and addressing denials at their root cause.
It’s hard to believe planning for the 2019 Revenue Integrity Symposium (RIS) is already underway. It feels like just yesterday we were all gathered in Phoenix exchanging ideas, learning about the latest regulatory changes, and soaking up that desert sun at 2018 RIS. The symposium is NAHRI’s official annual conference and you do not want to miss what we have in store this year.
CMS' administratorurged hospitals to go above and beyond the price transparency requirements laid out in the 2019 IPPS final rule. The requirement that hospitals post a list of their standard charges online in a machine-readable format went into effect January 1.
Hospitals are allowed to publish a list of charges that contains UB-04 revenue codes when complying with 2019 IPPS final rule requirements requiring the publication of standard charges, the American Hospital Association (AHA) said in a regulatory advisory bulletin
Q: Considering the 2019 IPPS final rule requirement that hospitals post a list of their standard charges online, is it your interpretation that the standard chargemaster includes pharmacy and supplies?
On December 4, CMS released additional FAQs regarding the 2019 IPPS final rule requirement that hospitals post a list of their standard charges on the internet.
