Author Archives: Kendall Quisenberry

Reimbursement Counselors, Inc. is celebrating our 20th anniversary today!  Special thanks to each and every client that has ever trusted us with your business, to our former and current employees, to those that have helped me as a consultant or … Continue reading →

Providers and their representatives received some good news recently in the courts! The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has invalidated CMS’s prohibition on appeals of so-called predicate facts. A predicate fact is a specific determination … Continue reading →

CMS has recently issued a proposed rule for the OPPS Payment System that included a proposal to significantly scale back reimbursement for Part B drugs to hospitals participating in the federal 340B Drug Discount Program.  CMS believes hospitals are being … Continue reading →

CMS published the final FY 2016 wage index Public Use File (PUF) on May 1, 2015. CMS indicated that hospitals will have approximately 1 month to verify their data and submit correction requests to both CMS and their MAC to … Continue reading →

Question:   Bill Super (named changed) at Bill Super and Associates, CPA firm is the best and the brightest!  We hire him to prepare our cost reports!  How can we have any errors on our Medicare cost reports that you could … Continue reading →