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CMS releases FY 2024 final rule for inpatient psychiatric facilities
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released its fiscal year 2024 final rule for the inpatient psychiatric facility prospective payment system, which updates the IPF payment rate by a net 2.4% in FY 2024.
Inpatient Psychiatric Facility PPS: Final Rule for FY 2024
The AHA is disappointed that CMS disregarded AHA’s and other stakeholders’ recommendations to improve the IPF PPS and IPFQR. Even though the final payment update is higher than proposed, it is still insufficient to meet the critical financial pressures faced by psychiatric facilities.
Administration Proposes Enhanced Mental Health Parity Regulations
The departments of the Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services July 25 issued a proposed rule related to the enforcement of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) of 2008.
2024 NPRM OPPS Lookup
Lookup Tool: The third spreadsheet is an OPPS APC/HCPCS lookup tool that allows the user to pull-up basic descriptive and payment information for a code.
2024 NPRM Addendum A Compared to July 2023
The Addendum A spreadsheet compares relative weights and payment rates at the APC level, using the 2024 proposed rule Addendum A compared to 2023 Addendum A (July 1, 2023 file), as downloaded from the CMS website.
2024 NPRM Addendum B Compared to July 2023
The Addendum B Spreadsheet compares relative weights and payment rates at the HCPCS level, using proposed rule Addendum B compared to 2023 Addendum B (July 1, 2023 file).
AHA Letter to Congress in Support of the Preventing Maternal Deaths Reauthorization Act
We, the undersigned 85 national organizations committed to improving the health and well-being of our nation’s families, write to express our strong support for the bipartisan Preventing Maternal Deaths Reauthorization Act of 2023 (H.R.3838/S.2415).
AHA podcast: What is a CLABSI and How to Prevent It
Nishant Prasad, M.D., program director of infectious diseases at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, shares how his team reexamined its approach to central line-associated bloodstream infections and reduced occurrences to zero last year.
Rural Hospital Leadership Team Award - Background
The Rural Hospital Leadership Team Award from the AHA Rural Health Services honors the leadership team who have guided their hospital and community through transformational change on the road to health care innovation. The team will have displayed outstanding leadership and responsiveness to the community’s health needs and demonstrated a collaborative community process that has led to measureable outcomes.
Price transparency bill with site-neutral cuts, competition bill advance in House
The House Ways and Means Committee July 26 voted 25-16 to pass the Health Care Price Transparency Act (H.R. 4822), legislation that would impose additional site-neutral payment cuts and regulatory burdens on off-campus hospital outpatient departments, impose additional Medicare sequester cuts on hospitals, and codify and make changes to hospital price transparency regulations.