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- Title: Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2018 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition)
- Author : The Law Library
- Release Date : January 20, 2018
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 590 KB
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The Law Library presents the complete text of the Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2018 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition).
Updated as of May 29, 2018
This final rule updates the prospective payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) for federal fiscal year (FY) 2018 as required by the statute. As required by section 1886(j)(5) of the Social Security Act (the Act), this rule includes the classification and weighting factors for the IRF prospective payment system's (IRF PPS) case-mix groups and a description of the methodologies and data used in computing the prospective payment rates for FY 2018. This final rule also revises the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) diagnosis codes that are used to determine presumptive compliance under the “60 percent rule,” removes the 25 percent payment penalty for inpatient rehabilitation facility patient assessment instrument (IRF-PAI) late transmissions, removes the voluntary swallowing status item (Item 27) from the IRF-PAI, summarizes comments regarding the criteria used to classify facilities for payment under the IRF PPS, provides for a subregulatory process for certain annual updates to the presumptive methodology diagnosis code lists, adopts the use of height/weight items on the IRF-PAI to determine patient body mass index (BMI) greater than 50 for cases of single-joint replacement under the presumptive methodology, and revises and updates measures and reporting requirements under the IRF quality reporting program (QRP).
This ebook contains:
- The complete text of the Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2018 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition)
- A dynamic table of content linking to each section
- A table of contents in introduction presenting a general overview of the structure