CMS Releases Inpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule: Comments Have Been Requested  

kow5101 May 23, 2023

CMS released the fiscal year (FY) 2024 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule. NRHA’s full summary is available here. CMS also released a fact sheet. Key provisions include:

Increased IPPS payments by 2.8% overall and 3.3% for rural hospitals.

Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) provisions include codifying conversion guidance and allowing REHs to be Medicare Graduate Medical Education eligible sites.
The proposed policy that hospitals reclassified as rural must be treated like geographically rural hospitals for wage index calculations.
 A safety net hospital request for information.

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