Medicare uses the 2-midnight rule to determine whether to bill a hospital stay under Part A or Part B. This rule has implications for both costs and coverage. Original Medicare consists of Part A ...

Steve Filton, CFO of King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services, shares the cautious optimism on CMS’ two-midnight rule as other for-profit CFOs. In 2024, Medicare Advantage plans must ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' January expansion of the two-midnight rule to include Medicare Advantage plans has contributed to higher inpatient volumes and revenue growth in the ...

A coalition of health-care systems, led by Novant Health Inc., has agreed to another stay in their lawsuit against the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services involving the “two ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has temporarily suspended its review of short stay patient claims to give reviewers time to improve the standardization around the two midnight rule, CMS ...

Kodiak Solutions said its analysis of hospital inpatient and outpatient claims data suggests that payers are “continuing to apply their own criteria for inpatient admission and dismissing the ...