CMS Extends Deadline for
Resident Cap Exception Requests
May 28, 2004 - On May 26, the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a notice
extending, to June 14, the deadline for hospitals at risk
of having their Medicare resident caps reduced to submit a
request for CMS to use resident counts from a more recent
cost reporting period. The original deadline that had been
published in an April 30 "one
time notification" (OTN) was June 4 [see Washington
Highlights, May 7].
The potential resident cap reductions result from a provision
in the Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act
of 2003 that
requires CMS to reduce resident caps for hospitals with below-cap
counts and redistribute them to hospitals wishing to expand
their caps.
Detailed information on this provision was published in the
April 30 CMS notice, as well as in the FY 2005 Medicare Inpatient
PPS proposed rule.
Information:
Karen Fisher, Sr. Director, Health Care Affairs
AAMC Health Care Affairs
kfisher@aamc.org
(202) 862-6140
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