Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS)

Yesterday we sent you an AHA Advocacy Action Alert on a letter that Sens. Salazar \(D-CO\) and Pat Roberts \(R-KS\) are asking their colleagues to sign opposing two provisions in the fiscal year \(FY\) 2008 Medicare inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule.
On April 13, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released its fiscal year \(FY\) 2008 proposed rule for the hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\).
President Bush's proposed fiscal year 2008 budget proposes major reductions to the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Released this morning, the budget includes more than 0 billion in Medicare cuts to hospital services alone, including cuts to the inpatient and outpatient updates, rehabilitation…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) yesterday released the rate year \(RY\) 2008 proposed rule for the long-term care hospital \(LTCH\) prospective payment system \(PPS\).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) on September 29 released a final notice that included the fiscal year \(FY\) 2007 hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\) final wage indices and payment rates
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On April 12, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released its proposed rule for the fiscal year \(FY\) 2007 hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\). CMS proposes some of the most significant changes to the system since its implementation in 1983.