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On Friday, April 11, 2025, CMS issued its annual Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS) Proposed Rule for Fiscal Year ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has locked in a 3.1% pay bump for inpatient payments to eligible hospitals during fiscal year 2024, which the agency said translates to a $2.2 ...

The inclusion of Medicare Advantage data in hospital quality reporting, mandatory participation in a bundled payment model and, of course, annual pay increases were common refrains among hospital ...

WASHINGTON — The Army’s new human resource system the Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army, or IPPS-A, is making military pay issues a remnant of the past for the Army National Guard. On April 20, ...

Medicare paid new hospitals three times more for their capital costs than they would have been paid under the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS), according to an audit report from the Office ...

There is an obvious and ongoing need for hospitals to strengthen their infection prevention programs in order to reduce infection rates as close to zero as possible. First and foremost, it’s our job ...

CMS has finalized a 2.6% payment increase for inpatient services, boosted DSH payments, established new interoperability rules for prior authorization, and confirmed the launch of a controversial ...

CMS is moving ahead with most of its proposed changes, including cuts to disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments, in the fiscal year (FY) 2024 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final ...