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 rule.

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