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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS or Agency) on April 10, 2023, published its annual proposed rule for the federal fiscal year (FY) 2024 Inpatient Prospective Payment...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services fiscal year 2024 Inpatient Prospective Payment System proposed update with proposed policy and regulation changes. Rule would update Medicare payment policies and quality reporting programs for inpatient hospitals and more

Proposed rule would reward hospitals that deliver high-quality care to underserved populations

Acute care hospitals that successfully participate in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program and are meaningful electronic health record users will get a proposed payment rate increase of 2.8% in 2024, under a proposed rule released Monday. This reflects a projected hospital market basket update of 3%, reduced by a projected 0.2 percentage point productivity

The authors of this Viewpoint argue that the focus on hospital readmission rates as a measure of quality during the past decade, although undoubtedly leading to

The final rule for Medicare hospital inpatient reimbursement includes a larger raise than proposed earlier this year.

Regulators eased quality programs to help hospitals slammed by the pandemic. Some think it's time to resume them.

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.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is allowing more time for doctors participating in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System to utilize an excessive and uncontrollable circumstance (EUC) waiver order that limits the negative impact of high-quality information to their funds. Physician and digital teams, as well as others, have until March 31 to apply for a MIPS