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Tread Cautiously With the IPPS 2017 Rule, a Pandora's Box

Published on Thu May 12, 2016

Hospitals give a lukewarm response to the IPPS increase of 0.9 percent, LTCHs seethe at 6.9 percent dip, and more… The long awaited Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTCH) Proposed Rule for fiscal year (FY) 2017 is here. This rule would affect the discharges occurring from 3330 acute care hospitals and 430 LTCHs [...]
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