2022 IPPS Proposed Rule: Possible Changes for Hospitals
May 5, 2021 Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Rates Proposed Rule, along with a fact sheet that acts to summarize the critical parts of the proposals. The following will highlight some of the more critical components of the Proposed Rule (PR). As the PR is over 1,900 pages long, our summary will be provided in a multi-part…