ICD10monitor September 16, 2024
Tiffany Ferguson, LMSW, CMAC, ACM

If you’ll recall, a couple of weeks ago, I reported on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Proposed Rule for the social determinants of health (SDoH) in the outpatient settings, specifically Hospital Outpatient Departments (HOPDs), Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs), and Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCs).

To recap, CMS has proposed in the 2025 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Rule an expansion of the SDoH initiatives for quality reporting, with a similar staged rollout to what we experienced during the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) rule for the 2024 mandate. The same measures and processes used in hospitals for inpatients 18 and older are proposed to be incorporated into the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR), Rural Emergency Hospital Quality Reporting...

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