2009 Proposed HIPPS Rules Released
On April 14, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS) released its Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment
System (HIPPS) proposed rule for fiscal year 2009. Overall, the
proposed rule is estimated to increase Medicare payments to
acute care hospitals by nearly $4.0 billion. In the rule, CMS
announced a mandated market-basket update of 3.0% for
hospitals that report data for 30 selected quality measures.
Hospitals not submitting data would receive a 1.0% update.
The rule proposes to expand the number of required quality
measures to 73 in FY 2010. CMS also proposes several
changes to the method used to compute the hospital wage
index. Comments on the proposed rule will be accepted until
June 13.
The proposed rule is posted at: http://tiny.cc/YM9jL
Press Release:
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/media/press_releases.asp
3 Quality Fact Sheets and Exec Summary Fact Sheet
4/14/08:
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/media/fact_sheets.asp |