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CMS’s new rule proposal increases payment rates, focuses on health equity and workforce Share this: The rule touches on a wide range of issues which are detailed below.   Payment rates & transparency requirements: The rule proposes increasing operating payment rates for acute care hospitals paid under the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) by 2.8%. “This reflects the projected hospital market basket update of 2.5 percent reduced by a 0.2 percentage point productivity adjustment and increased by a 0.5 percentage point adjustment required by legislation.” The rules stip...

(Photo by Alex Wong\Getty Images) The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has updated the Medicare fee-for-service payment rates and policies for inpatient hospitals and long-term care hospitals for 2022.  Before taking into account Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments and Medicare uncompensated care payments, the proposed increase in operating payment rates, increases in capital payments, increases in payments for new medical technologies, increases in payments due to implementation of the imputed floor and other proposed changes will increase hospital payments in FY 20...

OCR Director Roger Severino (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty) The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights on Friday issued guidance addressing how HIPAA permits the use of health information exchanges to disclose protected health information for public health purposes.   A covered entity is required to provide individuals with notice that it discloses protected health information for public health activities, the guidance read.   "OCR is issuing this guidance to highlight how HIPAA supports the use of health information exchanges in sharing health data to imp...