CMS To Soon Propose LTCH, IRF, Hospice & Psychiatric Rules

By John Wilkerson / April 16, 2015 at 6:39 PM
CMS is expected to propose Friday (April 17) a pay rule on long-term care hospitals that for the first time includes criteria for admitting patients to their facilities. CMS also will soon release proposed 2016 pay rules for inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and psychiatric and hospice services, all of which have pay systems on the fiscal year cycle. The agency proposed a fiscal 2016 pay rule for nursing homes Wednesday that it projected would increase aggregate pay to nursing homes by...


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