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Agency says COVID disruptions, staff shortages hamper ability to fairly score poor performers

General acute care hospitals are projected to get a 3.2% increase in operating payment rates under the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System proposed rule released Monday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. CMS estimates that payments to hospitals will increase in 2023 by $1.6 billion. The proposed

CMS proposed changes like discounting value-based payment measures due to the virus. Trade groups want a higher rate bump.

Thirteen Arkansas hospitals face penalties of 1% reductions in Medicare payments in federal fiscal year 2022 for high rates of hospital-acquired conditions, up from 10 hospitals in 2021 and 2020. Thirty-four hospitals were not penalized and 40 were exempt.

ATLANTA — Medicare has penalized 21 Georgia hospitals for having the highest rates of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.

Among the 764 hospitals hit with a 1% reduction in payments for having high numbers of infections and avoidable complications are more than three dozen Medicare ranks among the nation's best.

Among the 764 hospitals hit with a 1% reduction in payments for having high numbers of infections and avoidable complications are more than three dozen Medicare ranks among the nation's best.

Medicare has penalized 21 Georgia hospitals for having the highest rates of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.

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