2023 Proposed IPPS: Quality Program Changes
May 4, 2022 In last week’s alert, we provided some of the key highlights found in the federal government’s Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) Proposed Rule (PR) for fiscal year (FY) 2023 (beginning October 1, 2022). Today’s alert will flesh out some of the proposed changes in hospital-related quality programs found in that same PR. Quality-Reporting Program The Hospital Inpatient Quality-Reporting (IQR) Program is a pay-for-reporting quality program that reduces payment to those hospitals failing to meet the specified…