CMS Proposed Rule Updating Medicare Payment Policies for Hospitals in CY 2012
April 2011
Proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services updating Medicare payment policies and rates for hospitals in CY 2012. According to CMS, "The proposed rule would update payment policies and rates for acute care hospitals paid under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), as well as hospitals paid under the Long Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS). The proposed rule would also improve and expand the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program (IQR) with a greater focus on patient outcomes and experiences of care and establish the framework for a new quality reporting program that would apply to hospitals paid under the LTCH PPS." Additionally, the proposed rule "includes proposals aimed at encouraging improvements in the quality of care in hospital inpatient settings, and makes proposals that would align the existing inpatient quality reporting program with a proposed new hospital value-based purchasing program required by the Affordable Care Act."
CMS Proposed Rule Updating Medicare Payment Policies for Hospitals in CY 2012