At the third Fiscal Intermediary Workgroup meeting, participants continued to review suggestions that stakeholders submitted to DOH.

MLTC Update covers FIDA phase-out plan, reviews key dates.

Webinars being offered to provide information about the drill.

Nursing homes that will be subject to a 2 percent reduction of their Medicare Part A rate beginning on Oct. 1, 2020 for failing to meet the required Quality Reporting Program threshold should be receiving notification this week.

The proposal phases out prepayments for home health, ratchets up reductions based on behavioral assumptions in PDGM.

Draft allocations will likely be announced in early fall.

Increase is effective Aug. 1, 2019.

July 29^th is the due date for 2018 nursing home cost reports. EO #38 disclosure forms are due at the same time as Medicaid cost reports for Medicaid providers that file cost reports.