Long-Term Care PPS
On Nov. 18, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will release online training for health care providers and surveyors on phase one of the final rule revising Medicare and Medicaid quality and safety requirements for long-term care facilities. Phase one requirements take effect鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued a final rule representing the first comprehensive rewrite of Medicare and Medicaid quality and safety requirements for long-term care facilities since 1991.
On Aug. 2, CMS issued its fiscal year 2017 final rule for the inpatient and long-term care hospital prospective payment systems.
CMS recently issued final rules for fiscal year 2017 for three post-acute care prospective payment systems.
We are pleased CMS reversed the effects of the 0.2 percent payment reduction that was part of the original 鈥渢wo-midnight鈥 policy, and restored the resources that hospitals are lawfully due. However, we are disappointed that CMS finalized an unjustified cut to reimbursement rates for hospital鈥