Pay-Per-View: IPPS changes affect hospital compliance, reimbursement
Healthcare Auditing Weekly, February 12, 2008
CMS implemented new hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) rules in October 2007 in an effort to improve the accuracy of Medicare payments and enhance quality-improvement efforts.
The new system represents a major change in the capturing of complications and comorbidities (CC) via coding.
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