Medicaid Payment and Reimbursement

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?

Medicare does not distinguish payment by hospital-based or stand-alone home health agencies.

HFMA's Principles & Practices Board is working on publishing guidance on the recording of meaningful use payments.

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.