Medicare Program: Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems & Fiscal Year 2008 Rates

August 22, 2007 On August 22, 2007 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new rule governing payments made to hospitals by Medicare. These new measures hope to improve the current inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and the quality of care provided to patients by their hospitals. In accordance with these new regulations, Medicare will no longer pay for certain medical procedures that have now been deemed preventable. Such conditions include infections, bed sores, and falls incurred by patients while in the hospital, surgeries to recover materials left behind from previous surgeries, or patients who receive the . . .