tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 25

Rehab: CMS To Show IRFs The Money In 2006

Aggregate pay increase could approach 3 percent.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently published its massive 2006 proposed inpatient rehab facility payment rule in the Federal Register, letting inpatient rehab facilities know to expect aggregate payments to increase by $180 million over this year's totals.  That works out to an approximately 2.9-percent increase overall. And CMS proposes reducing the outlier threshold for unusually costly cases, allowing more cases to qualify for extra reimbursement. Further, CMS wants to revise Core Based Statistical Area market area definitions, whereby 4.4 percent of IRFs would change geographic...

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