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On April 27, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS). The proposed rule includes CMS proposals for certain annual Medicare payment policies and rates as well as certain quality and value-based programs for FY 2022. Stakeholders must submit any comments in response to the proposed rule by June 28, 2021.
Below are highlighted FY 2022 IPPS proposals that reflect CMS’ effort to streamline some of its existing payment policies.
Payment. CMS proposes to increase operating payment rates for general acute care hospitals that (i) participate in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program and (ii) are meaningful electronic health record users. Specifically, the Medicare IPPS rate for FY 2022 for eligible hospitals would increase by approximately 2.8 percent, which reflects an approximately $3