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CMS Updates IPPS Rates, Wage Index and DSH Uncompensated Care in 2024 Final Rule

Hall Render

On August 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued its Final Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (“IPPS”) and Long-Term Care Hospital (“LTCH”) PPS rule for fiscal year (“FY”) 2024 (“Final Rule”). The Final Rule increases the rate for IPPS payments by 3.3%

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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

It is interesting to note that a 2012 report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on this topic concluded that hospital consolidation increases healthcare costs and that physician-hospital consolidation has neither improved quality of care or reduced costs. Clinical applications.

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Gearing up for Immunizations

Redox

Meaningful Use Stage 2 in 2012, and made immunization reporting mandatory unless a state had no registry. Immunization requirements still live on as Meaningful Use has turned into the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 and associated Merit Based Incentive Payments System (MIPS). It also converged on HL7 2.5.1