Inpatient Rehab Facility PPS
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) March 27 issued its fiscal year (FY) 2025 proposed rule for the inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system (PPS).
San Antonio-area hospitals continue to care for victims of Sunday’s mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, TX, that left 26 dead and more than 20 injured. According to press reports, University Hospital, Connally Memorial Medical Center and Brooke Army Medical Center…
The AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust and Million Hearts® Oct. 25 will host a webinar on cardiac rehabilitation, a comprehensive secondary prevention program that helps patients improve key clinical measures, and adopt and practice a healthy lifestyle.
Inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term care hospitals have until Sept. 30 to review their 2016 quality data before it is publicly reported on the IRF Compare and LTCH Compare websites in December. Providers also have until Sept.
The National Disaster Medical System has activated its Definitive Care Reimbursement Program for about 85 patients medically evacuated from the U.S. Virgin Islands to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Irma, the Department of Health and Human Services announced yesterday.
Presentation slides: Inpatient Rehabilitation PPS Final Rule for 2018
On Aug. 3, CMS published its fiscal year (FY) 2018 final rule for the inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system (PPS). The attached summary, prepared for the AHA by Health Policy Alternatives, Inc., provides greater detail on this final rule.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a proposed rule that would cancel the cardiac and surgical hip and femur fracture treatment mandatory bundling payment programs, known as the episode payment models. It also would cancel the cardiac rehabilitation incentive payment model…