| Subject: | CMS Inpatient Prospective Payment System Reforms for 2008 |
| Category: | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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| Published: | Tue, 21 Aug 2007 - 06:00 am |
| CMS has recently issued its final rule announcing reforms to the acute care hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) for 2008. According to CMS, these reforms take significant steps to improve the accuracy of Medicare's payment under the IPPS while providing additional incentives for hospitals to engage in quality improvement efforts.Changes include:Restructuring of the inpatient diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) to account more fully for the severity of each patient's... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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