Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
CMS Looking To Change IPPS Billings
New medical services and technologies could bolster payments. GME Cost Changes Get A Look In a proposed rule published in the May 4 Federal Register, CMS made the following proposals: CMS also discusses the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's March 2005 hospital IPPS recommendations in this proposed rule. MedPAC addressed the IPPS inpatient hospital operating costs and capital-related costs update factor for hospitals excluded from the IPPS.
Hospitals should watch for a number of new diagnosis-related groups and diagnosis and procedure code changes under existing DRGs, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services turns its attention to rate-of-increase limits and policy changes for hospitals excluded from the inpatient prospective payment system.
Medicare Addresses MedPAC Suggestions
Note: The deadline for comments on the proposed rule is June 24. These proposed changes could become effective for discharges on or after Oct. 1.
To read the 2006 IPPS revisions, go online to:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/05-8507.htm.
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