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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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Modernizing Medicare to Take Advantage of the Latest Technologies

CMS.gov

Tue, 10/02/2018 - 13:57. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. However, while medical technology is developing at a rapid pace, Medicare’s payment systems haven’t always been as quick to change. Modernizing Medicare to Take Advantage of the Latest Technologies. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Seema Verma.

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Uncompensated Care and DSH (Medicare disproportionate share hospitals)

AIHC

Medicare Uncompensated Care Payments & DSH Hospitals' charity care and bad debt, together known as uncompensated care, is used to calculate disproportionate-share hospital payments. LTCHs are paid under the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS).