The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a final rule to update the payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) for federal fiscal year 2019 (discharges occurring on or after Oct. 1, 2018, and on or before Sept. 30, 2019). For
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CMS issued a final rule that will update the Resource Utilization Groups, Version IV (RUG IV) payment rates used under the prospective payment system (PPS) for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), for fiscal year 2019. SNF payments in FY 2019 will increase by 2.4% ($820
Read more →CMS has issued a rule to update the Medicare Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities (IPFs) Prospective Payment System for fiscal year 2019. For IPFs, CMS finalizes a net payment increase of 1.1% or $50 million in FY 2019 compared to FY 2018. This includes a 2.9%
Read more →The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a proposed rule to update both the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and the Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System for fiscal year 2019. CMS projects that total Medicare spending on
Read more →CMS has issued a proposal to update the Medicare Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities (IPFs) Prospective Payment System (PPS) for fiscal year 2019. CMS estimates that the total impact of its proposed changes for FY 2019 compared to FY 2018 will be a net increase
Read more →CMS has published a proposed rule to update the payment rates for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs) for Federal fiscal year 2019. CMS says that “the overall economic impact of this final rule is an estimated increase in payments to IRFs in FY 2019,
Read more →CMS has issued a proposed rule that would update the payment rates used under the prospective payment system (PPS) for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), for fiscal year 2019. This proposed rule also proposes to replace the existing case-mix classification methodology, the Resource Utilization
Read more →CMS has issued a proposed rule that will update hospice payment rates, wage index values, and quality reporting items for fiscal year 2019. CMS estimates that aggregate payments to hospices in FY 2019 will increase by $340 million, or 1.8 percent, compared to
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