Hospitals & hospital-based services: Council on Medical Service reports

These Council reports have addressed hospital consolidation, the site-of-service differential, and sole community hospitals.

2024

• Nonprofit Hospital Charity Care Policies (PDF) CMS Report 1-I-24

• Physician-Owned Hospitals (PDF) CMS Report 4-I-23
• Rural Hospital Payment Models (PDF) CMS Report 6-I-23
• Impact of Integration and Consolidation on Patients and Physicians (PDF) CMS Report 08-A-23. Read the issue brief for this report: Hospital consolidation (PDF).

• Incentives to Encourage Efficient Use of Emergency Departments (PDF) CMS Report 01-I-22
• Health System Consolidation (PDF) CMS report 03-I-22

• Financing of Home and Community-Based Services (PDF) CMS Report 4-N-21
• Continuity of Care for Patients Discharged (PDF) CMS Report 02-JUN-21
• Medical Center Patient Transfer Policies (PDF) CMS Report 05-JUN-21
• Rural Hospitals (PDF) CMS Report 09-JUN-21. Read the issue brief for this report: Rural Hospitals (PDF).

• Economic Discrimination in the Hospital Practice Setting (PDF) CMS Report 4-November 2020

• Hospital Consolidation (PDF) CMS report 7-A-19

• The Site-of-service Differential (PDF) CMS report 4-I-18. Read the issue brief for this report: Pay Variations Across Outpatient Sites of Service (PDF). 
• Addressing the Site-of-service Differential (PDF) CMS report 8-A-18

• Hospital Consolidation (PDF) CMS report 5-A-17
• Hospital Surveys and Health Care Disparities (PDF) CMS report 2-I-17

• Physician Communication and Care Coordination During Patient Hospitalizations (PDF) CMS report 6-A-16. Read the issue brief for this report: Improving Physician Communication During Patient Hospitalizations (PDF). 
• Hospital Discharge Communications (PDF) CMS report 7-I-16. Read the issue brief for this report: Improving Physician Communication During Patient Hospitalizations (PDF). 

• Physician Payment by Medicare (PDF) CMS report 2-A-15
• Economic Viability of Rural Sole Community Hospitals (PDF) CMS report 3-A-15
• Hospital Incentives for Admission, Testing and Procedures (PDF) CMS report 5-A-15

• Medicare Update Formulas Across Outpatient Sites of Service (PDF) CMS report 3-A-14. Read the issue brief for this report: Pay Variations Across Outpatient Sites of Service (PDF). 
• Analysis of Place-of-service Code for Observation Services (PDF) CMS report 4-A-14
• Hospital Admissions and Patient Management Contractors (PDF) CMS report 1-I-14

• Payment Variations Across Outpatient Sites of Service (PDF) CMS report 3-A-13. Read the issue brief for this report: Pay Variations Across Outpatient Sites of Service (PDF). 
• Integrated Electronic Patient Care Reports for Prehospital Providers (PDF) CMS report 4-I-13
• The Corporate Practice of Medicine (PDF) CMS report 6-I-13

• Medicaid Coverage of Adults in Psychiatric Hospitals (PDF) CMS report 3-A-11
• Interpreter Services and Payment Responsibilities (PDF) CMS report 5-A-11
• Denial of Payment Based on Volume of Procedures Performed (PDF) CMS report 6-A-11

• Physician Employment Arrangements (PDF) CMS report 3-I-10

• Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding (PDF) CMS report 3-A-09
• Appropriate Hospital Charges (PDF) CMS report 4-A-09
• Emergency Room Contracts and Hospital Privileges (PDF) CMS report 1-I-09 

• Access to Psychiatric Beds and Impact on Emergency Medicine (PDF) CMS report 2-A-08

Access all council reports prior to 2007 or learn more about the Council on Medical Service.