tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 19

Rehab: REHAB HOSPITALS IN LINE FOR 3.3 PERCENT INCREASE

Inpatient rehabilitation hospitals would get a 3.3 percent reimbursement increase under a proposed rule to be issued May 16 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the agency announced May 8. A prospective payment system for these facilities became effective as of Jan. 1, 2002. CMS said that, as of Sept. 30, 2003, it was re-instituting enforcement of the "75 percent rule." This regulation requires rehab hospitals to show that at least three-quarters of their inpatient population over the most recent 12-month cost reporting period required "intensive rehabilitation services for 10 serious medical conditions," such...

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