Becker's Healthcare April 24, 2019
CMS released its annual Inpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule April 23, which includes changes to the hospital wage index and would raise Medicare payment rates for acute care hospitals.
Nine things to know about the 2020 proposed rule:
Payment rate update
1. Under the proposed rule, acute care hospitals that report quality data and are meaningful users of EHRs will receive a 3.2 percent increase in Medicare rates in fiscal year 2020, compared to fiscal 2019.
2. CMS projects the rate increase, together with changes in uncompensated care payments, new technology add-on payments and other changes to inpatient payment policies, will boost total IPPS payments by 3.7 percent in fiscal 2020.
Disproportionate Share Hospital payments
3. CMS proposes distributing...
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