Federal Register (59 FR 49853-50536): Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Fiscal Year 2015 Rates; Quality Reporting Requirements for Specific Providers; Reasonable Compensation Equivalents for Physician Services in Excluded Hospitals and Certain Teaching Hospitals; Provider Administrative Appeals and Judicial Review; Enforcement Provisions for Organ Transplant Centers; and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program

In August 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule for 2015 for the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS). The rule: 1) Updates the rate of increase limits for certain hospitals excluded from the IPPS that are paid on a reasonable cost basis subject to these limits; 2) Updates the payment policies and the annual payment rates for the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient hospital services provided by long-term care hospitals (LTCHs); 3) Implements certain statutory changes to the LTCH PPS under the Affordable Care Act and the Pathway for . . .