Industry Notes:
Two-Midnight Rule Court Case Adjusts Some Hospitals' Medicare Pay
Published on Wed Dec 06, 2017
Some providers will have a little more money in their pockets this holiday season, according to a release from CMS. Why: A recent court case and its subsequent settlement concerning the Two-Midnight rule challenged "the imposition of a 0.2 percent downward adjustment to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS)" thatbegin in 2014 and impacted "the standardized amount," CMS Transmittal 1969 [...]