Highlights from the Medicare Program 2022 Proposed Rule for Acute Care Hospitals Inpatient Prospective Payment System | Bricker & Eckler LLP
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On April 27, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the 2022 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule for Acute Care Hospitals. The IPPS Proposed Rule contains a number of proposals related to hospitals and the Medicare program—some payment-related and others policy-related. Several of the proposals are highlighted below. Price transparency While CMS has not thrown out the entire price transparency rule, it is proposing to repeal the requirement it finalized last year that hospitals rep...