Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued a correction notice to the fiscal year 2016 inpatient and long-term care hospital prospective payment system final rule, which was published Aug. 17.
Finding in favor of hospitals, a federal judge late yesterday rejected CMS's arguments that it met all legal requirements for rulemaking when the agency cut hospitals inpatient payments by 0.2 percent in conjunction with its "two-midnight" policy.
The AHA last week called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to extend the partial enforcement delay of the two-midnight policy to conform with other proposed changes to the policy.
Late July 31, the CMS issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) PPS final rule for fiscal year (FY) 2016. Select highlights of the final rule related to the inpatient PPS are highlighted in this Bulletin.
Late April 17, CMS issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) PPS proposed rule for fiscal year 2016.