New payment rate:Acute-care hospitals that report inpatient quality data and participate in the EHR Meaningful Use program will receive a 2.8% net increase in payment rates. The rate adjustment will send approximately $3.3 billion more funding to hospitals compared with 2023. LTCH payments:CMS proj...
On August 1, 2023, CMS issued a final rule entitled,Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2024 Rates; Quality Programs and Medicare Promoting Interoperabilit...
After the outlier update, IPFs will receive an estimated 1.5 percent, or $50 million, increase in Medicare payments in FY 2023. In FY 2022,CMS proposed a 2.1 percent rate increase for inpatient psychiatric facilities, with a 0.2 percent increase in aggregate paymentsstemming from...
CMS adjusted payments under OPPS and Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) to include the additional costs of domestically manufactured, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)-approved surgical N95 respirators, effective Jan. 1, 2023. CMS will categorize all ...
CMS introduces new quality measures focused on health equity and social drivers of health and seeks input on further addressing patient safety. CMS proposes revising its current bundling policy for diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals to pay for high-cost radiopharmaceuticals separately with a per-day cost...
In an email on Friday, CMS said that it will not offer MIPS facility-based scoring because the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS)/Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS) Final Rule finalized the suppression of several measures...
In its FY2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS) final rule, CMS introduced PRO quality reporting measures for certain THA and TKA patients, establishing two voluntary reporting periods...
9.Public display of “quality measures” and other hospice data for HQRP— CMS proposes to publicly report the HVLDL and HCI, another claims-based measure, no earlier than May 2022. CMA also proposes, in the COVID-19 PHE, to use three quarters of HIS data of the final affected refresh...
Home Health Quality Reporting Program CMS is finalizing four new measures, modifying one existing measure, and updating the OASIS all payer data collection. The measures relate to social determinants of health, an ongoing focus for the administration. The new measures involve living situations, food,...
for patients to make informed decisions regarding their care based on quality. This change in CMS’s approach to quality improvement represents the adoption of value-based care on a large scale. It also presents new obstacles that providers will encounter when attempting to imp...