What’s happening: CHA asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to increase the payment update in comments on the federal fiscal year 2025 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed rule.
What else to know: Members are encouraged to use CHA’s letter as a template to submit comments, which are due on June 10.
In the letter, CHA raises concerns about the proposed market basket update and urges CMS to:
- Provide an adequate payment update in the final rule
- Make the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) voluntary
- End the area wage index bottom quartile policy
- Revise uncompensated care disproportionate share hospital factors
- Revise acute care hospital and long-term care fixed-loss outlier thresholds
- Revise methodology used to calculate the labor-related share for long-term care hospitals
- Reconsider the use of attestation-based structural quality measures
- Not finalize significant increase to electronic clinical quality measure reporting requirements
Comments can be submitted online by 2 p.m. (PT) on June 10 and must include “CMS-1808-P” in the subject line.
CHA thanks members for their input that helped inform comments.
