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Inpatient Psychiatric Facility PPS Proposed Rule for FY 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) April 4 issued its fiscal year (FY) 2024

AHA launches learning hub for health care quality leaders   

AHA recently launched the Quality Collective, an exclusive peer-to-peer learning hub for health care quality leaders. 

NQF accepting comments on potential Medicare quality measures

The National Quality Forum’s Measure Applications Partnership is accepting public comment through Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. ET on 52 performance measures CMS is considering for use in Medicare public reporting and payment programs.

How to Address 3 Critical Health Care Focus Areas for 2022

Service lines continue to be interrupted by COVID-19, with no end in sight. The health care workforce is stressed out and stretched thinly amid the so-called Great Resignation wave. Care delivery increasingly is being moved from hospitals to outpatient facilities and the home, thanks in part to an explosion of digital technologies.
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Special Bulletin: CMS Releases Hospital Inpatient PPS Proposed Rule for Fiscal Year 2021

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) May 11 issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) PPS proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2021. In addition to proposing a 3.1% increase in inpatient PPS payments for 2021, the rule would require disclosure of certain payer-negotiated rates and makes changes to Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments, Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy payment and quality incentive programs.

Blog: Sustaining Quality Transparency While Accounting for COVID-19’s Unprecedented Challenges

Recent reports have mischaracterized Medicare’s proposals to account for the impact of COVID-19 in its quality measurement programs as “hiding” important and useful patient safety data from the public.
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Skilled Nursing Facility PPS Proposed Rule for FY 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on April 8 issued its fiscal year (FY) 2023 proposed rule for the skilled nursing facility (SNF) prospective payment system (PPS).

IRFs, LTCHs can review updated provider preview reports through April 6

Inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term care hospitals have until April 6 to access updated provider preview reports of their quality data.