Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS)

Bipartisan “Dear Colleague” letters are circulating in the House and Senate that would ask the Centers for Medicare…
The AHA has been making the case to CMS urging it to adjust the market-basket update to account for the unprecedented inflationary environment hospitals and health systems are experiencing, and eliminate the productivity cut. We also have asked Congress to weigh in with the agency to make these…
Sens. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., are spearheading a “Dear Colleague” letter to the Centers for Medicare…
The AHA released a new fact sheet that hospital and health system leaders can use as they ask Congress to urge CMS to make two critical changes to the IPPS proposed rule.
America’s hospitals and health systems continue to face unprecedented financial pressures due to the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and current inflationary economy. Historic inflation has extended and heightened the already severe economic instability brought on by the pandemic resulting…
AHA called on Congress to urge CMS to make two critical changes to the hospital inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule for FY 2023.
June 17, 2022 The Honorable Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hubert H. Humphrey Building 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Room 445-G Washington, DC 20201
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) April 18 issued its inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2023. The rule affects inpatient PPS hospitals, critical access hospitals (CAHs), LTCHs and PPS-exempt cancer…
On May 25, 2022 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET, AHA hosted a webinar to review key provisions in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ fiscal year 2023 proposed rule for the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS).