tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 13

Long-Term Care: CMS Proposes Payment Boost For LTCHs

Effective date change also proposed The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule to increase Medicare payments to long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) by 2.6 percent beginning July 1, according to a CMS fact sheet. That's an LTCH PPS standard Federal rate of $39,076.28 for Medicare discharges occurring on or after July 1, 2008, through Sept. 30, 2009. Last year, the LTCH prospective payment system (PPS) final rule cut Medicare payments by 3.8 percent, but the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007, signed into law in December, provided a freeze...

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