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For the FY 2023 payment determination and subsequent years, CMS is finalizing its proposal to adopt the COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Among Healthcare Personnel (HCP) measure to the IPF QRP. The measure addresses the quality priority of “Promote Effective Prevention & Treatment of Chronic Disease” through the Meaningful Measures domain of Preventive Care. The process measure … Read more
The IPF QRP requires IPFs to submit quality data to CMS in accordance with the IPF QRP’s requirements or receive a payment reduction of 2.0 percentage points to their annual update. CMS makes the IPF QRP data submitted by IPFs publicly available. This public reporting helps consumers make more informed decisions about their health care … Read more
In FY 2022 and for subsequent years, CMS is adopting conforming changes to the IPF PPS teaching policy with respect to displaced residents from IPF hospital closures and closures of IPF teaching programs, thus aligning IPF teaching policy with changes that the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) finalized in the FY 2021 IPPS/LTCH PPS final … Read more
For FY 2022, CMS is updating the IPF PPS payment rates by 2.0% based on the final IPF market basket estimate of 2.7%, less a 0.7 percentage point productivity adjustment. In addition, the final rule updates the outlier threshold to maintain outlier payments at 2.0% of total payments. This adjustment will result in a 0.1% … Read more
On July 29, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule that updates Medicare payment policies and rates for the Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF) Prospective Payment System (PPS) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 and finalizes changes to the IPF Quality Reporting Program (QRP). CMS is publishing this final rule consistent … Read more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a rule which would enable states to make payments to third parties on behalf of certain individual health care practitioners, including home care workers and personal care assistants. These changes would make it easier for those workers to obtain and retain health insurance, training, and other … Read more
Medicare is a national health insurance program in the United States, begun in 1965 under the Social Security Administration (SSA) and now administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). It primarily provides health insurance for Americans aged 65 and older, but also for some younger people with disability status as determined by … Read more
Question: My husband just lost the job, I am only working part time and we have two kids under the age of ten. We were a low income household before my husband got laid off now we are just hardly getting by each day. My husband is looking for a full time job. In the … Read more