On the evening of April 7th, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the fiscal year (FY) 2022 proposed rule for inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs), which includes proposed policies for payment and quality reporting in these facilities. Comments on the proposed rule are due on June 7, 2021. CMS Predicts Increase in IPF [...] Read More
On November 20, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) issued a fact sheet and final rule to modernize and clarify regulations that interpret and implement the physician self-referral law. The intent of the final rule is to balance the reduction of unnecessary physician burden with the goal of removing a physician’s financial [...] Read More
On the evening of July 31, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released three payment rules for the upcoming fiscal year 2021. These rules contain finalized payment policies for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), hospices, and inpatient psychiatric facilities. Because of the ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency, CMS has limited the annual rulemaking [...] Read More
Tweet Today, CMS released the final fiscal year (FY) 2020 Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF) prospective payment system rule. The rule rebalances the market basket used to update IPF payments annually, implements rate updates beginning October 1, 2019, and adds an additional measure to the IPF quality reporting program. CMS estimates that the payment updates will [...] Read More
This evening Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the FY 2020 Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System (IPF PPS) and Quality Reporting Updates proposed rule. CMS proposes to update the IPF PPS market basket by 1.85 percent for FY 2020 and to rebase the IPF market basket to 2016 base year- stating that [...] Read More
This evening, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed payment rules for four settings of care: hospices, inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF), skilled nursing facilities (SNF), and inpatient psychiatric facilities. Each rule contains payment updates for the prospective payment system for each type of facility as well as update to additional policies. All […]
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