tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 28

HOSPITALS: Senators, Representatives Battle CMS To Protect Your IPPS Payments

Lawmakers try to stall Medicare payment changes to avoid a hasty implementationIf you're worried about how much the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) proposed changes to your Medicare payment system will rock your hospital's boat, now you have a reason to breathe a (small) sigh of relief.Reason: Influential lawmakers in both the House and Senate are pleading with CMS to revaluate its proposed changes to the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), which would become effective on Oct. 1, 2006. The agency should delay its proposed rule, which it issued in April, for one year, 189...

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