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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