Inpatient Rehab Facility PPS
AHA Regulatory Advisory regarding Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility PPS: Final Rule For FY 2014
In the May 8 Federal Register, CMS published its fiscal year 2014 proposed rule for the inpatient rehabilitation facility prospective payment system.
We are pleased to announce that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently informed the AHA that critical access hospitals (CAHs) will not be subject to the outpatient therapy cap, although the cost of outpatient therapy services provided in CAHs will accrue towards the cap, in…
Lynn C. Jones, president, Christiana Care Home Health & Community Services, Inc. and senior vice president, post-acute care services, Christiana Care Health System of Wilmington, Del., is the 2013 chairman of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section for Long-Term Care and…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has rescinded interpretive guidance it issued last fall pertaining to the ordering of rehabilitation and respiratory care services under the hospital Conditions of Participation and issued new guidance enabling hospital outpatient departments to…
A new report documents sustained declines in patients discharged from inpatient rehabilitation hospitals as well as an increase in higher acuity patients following the implementation of several major policy changes in recent years.
Immediately following implementation of the IRF Prospective Payment System Final Rule of May, 2004, the prior growth trend in IRF discharges ended, and volume declined steadily until the third quarter of calendar year 2007. In subsequent quarters, Medicare caseload fluctuated from a low of 66,514…
In the August 5 Federal Register, CMS published its fiscal year (FY) 2012 final rule for the inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF)
AHA Briefing on Deficit Reduction Strategy for Inpatient Rehab
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published in the August 7 Federal Register the inpatient rehabilitation facility \(IRF\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) final rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2010.