CMS Fact Sheet: Medicare Final Rule: Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems For Acute Care Hospitals & The Long Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System & Policy Changes & Fiscal Year 2019 Rates

The fact sheet was issued on August 2, 2018, by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). It explains key provisions of the Medicare final rule for the hospital inpatient prospective payment systems for acute care hospitals and for long-term care hospitals. In the fact sheet, CMS noted that it had deleted performance measures from its four quality and value-based purchasing programs for acute care hospitals: Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR), Value-Based Purchasing (VBP), Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HAC) Reduction, and Hospital Readmissions Reduction Programs (HRRP). CMS seeks to use a smaller set of more meaningful measures, focusing . . .