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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its final rule on payments to skilled-nursing facilities (SNFs) for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2023.
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What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its proposed payment policies for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), skilled-nursing facilities (SNFs), and hospices for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2025.
What else to know: Comments on the proposed rules are due to CMS by 2 p.m. (PT) on May 28.
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As California hospitals continue to face unprecedented challenges, and patients are placed at risk by the lack of state and federal support, it’s vital that every available resource be secured to ensure care can continue to be delivered for all Californians.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its proposed rule on payments to skilled-nursing facilities (SNFs) for fiscal year (FY) 2023. Comments on the proposed rule are due by 2 p.m. (PT) on June 10.
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CHA DataSuite has issued hospital-specific analyses of the federal fiscal year (FFY) 2022 final rules for the Medicare skilled-nursing facility (SNF) prospective payment system (PPS), the FFY 2022 inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) PPS, and the FFY 2022 inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) PPS.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regularly provides important updates about post-acute care quality reporting programs (QRPs), including training opportunities, public reporting, and reminders of data submission and review deadlines.
Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities
QRP training
CMS will host two webinars for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) on proper coding of Section M Skin Conditions (Pressure Ulcer/Injury) and Section N of the IRF Patient Assessment Instrument Version 2.00. Updated reporting requirements for Sections M and N became effective on Oct. 1 for IRF providers. See the IRF Quality Reporting Training web page for details.
Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals
Provider preview reports
CMS has informed long-term acute care hospitals (LTCHs) that previous provider preview reports for the Discharge to Community – PAC measure contained an error. Preview data released in June 2018 incorporated only seven of eight required quarters of data. Data from October through December 2016 were inadvertently omitted.
CMS has reissued the LTCH provider preview reports, and corrected reports are now available via CASPER system folders. LTCH providers have until Aug. 31 to preview the corrected data in advance of public reporting for the September 2018 LTCH Compare Refresh.
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Join this statewide gathering of patient safety professionals and enjoy a pre-conference Leadership Summit hosted by Hospital Council Northern & Central California. The 2023 HQI and Hospital Council Annual Conference will offer three keynote addresses, four tracks of breakout sessions, and one can’t-miss opportunity to advance patient safety.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regularly provides important updates about post-acute care quality reporting programs, including training opportunities, public reporting details and reminders of data submission and review deadlines. Following are the recent updates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals and hospice providers:
Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities
Provider Preview Reports
Provider preview reports are now available for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs). IRFs have until April 5, 2018, to review their performance on quality measures based on data from quarter 3 of 2016 to quarter 2 of 2017, prior to their posting to the IRF Compare website in June 2018. Access instructions for the provider reports are available online. Corrections to the underlying data will not be permitted during this time. However, providers can request review by CMS during the preview period if they believe their data are inaccurate.
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Gov. Newsom’s proposal to provide health care workers with $933 million in retention payments represents an important step toward recognizing the invaluable contributions of California’s pandemic heroes.
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What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its final payment rules for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), skilled-nursing facilities (SNFs), and hospices for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2025. CHA has issued members-only summaries of each rule.
What else to know: In general, the payment updates were slightly higher than proposed, but still inadequate relative to input price inflation.