CMS releases 2012 IPPS final rule
HIM-HIPAA Insider, August 9, 2011
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to HIM-HIPAA Insider!
CMS released its final rule for the FY 2012 Inpatient Prospective Payment System integral to inpatient Medicare reimbursement at short-term and long-term acute care hospitals as announced in an August 1 press release.
In a major surprise, CMS finalized a documentation and coding adjustment (DCA) of -2.0% instead of the proposed -3.15% for fiscal year (FY) 2012, according to the 2012 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) final rule released August 1.
Click here to read more.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to HIM-HIPAA Insider!
Related Products
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Note from Hugh
- Q/A: How should we report irradiated blood products?
- 2014 SNF Proposed Rule Analysis: Revising and rebasing the SNF market basket
- Reminder: MDS correction policy to be updated effective May 19
- Ask the expert: BIMS assessment
- CMS issues transmittal to update the Medicare Provider Reimbursement Manual
- CMS corrects edit 84, deletes modifiers
- Creative Ways to Trim Nurse Staffing Costs
- Residents say cause of death reporting often inaccurate
- CMS looking for comments on molecular pathology payments
- E-mailed
-
- Georgia hospitals scrambling to create residency positions
- Q/A: How should we report irradiated blood products?
- CMS looking for comments on molecular pathology payments
- Tip of the week: Build a successful website to impress candidates
- Joint Commission seeks input on behavioral health home certification
- Don't burn those ICD-9-CM Manuals just yet
- HCA initiative boosts flu shots among hospital workers
- Tip: Keep an eye on evolving molecular pathology codes
- Experience why your peers call Greeley "the expert in peer review"
- Creative Ways to Trim Nurse Staffing Costs
- Searched
