Medicare Payment Update: What You Need to Know About the Medicare Payment Rulemakings for 2023

King & Spalding will host a roundtable to discuss the highlights of the recent rulemakings CMS has issued affecting Medicare payments to providers, including the IPPS Final Rule for FY 2023, the OPPS Proposed Rule for CY 2023, and CMS’s proposed rule to revise the distance requirements for CAHs. Topics of discussion will include:

• Significant revisions to wage index rules;
• Repeal of the “fellow penalty” and other GME reimbursement changes;
• Empirical DSH and Section 1115 uncompensated care pool days after Bethesda Health v. Azar;
• Significant updates for claiming uncompensated care on S-10;
• OPPS payment cut for 340B drugs, retroactive relief and the fallout of Becerra v. American Hospital Association;
• Rural Emergency Hospitals; and
• Proposed changes to the CAH distance requirements.

For questions, contact Caroline Wendt at cwendt@kslaw.com.

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