The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued final rules for the hospice payment rate, the Medicare inpatient psychiatric facility prospective payment system (IPF PPS), and related quality reporting programs for fiscal year (FY) 2026.
CMS will update the IPF PPS payment rate by 2.5%, based on the 2021 market basket increase...
No new changes yet to the Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF) Quality Reporting Program, but payments to facilities are expected to increase 2.5% ($90 million) over FY 2022. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said the IPF prospective payment system (PPS) rates in FY 2023 will be updated by 3.8%. The agency also...
