CMS To Assess Psych Facilities Based On Patients’ Medication Continuity

Inpatient psychiatric facilities will see a 1.5% pay bump in fiscal 2020 and will be subject to a new quality measure intended to assess whether patients fill their prescriptions soon after being discharged. Those changes are found in the final fiscal 2020 Medicare pay rule for the Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System , which CMS released Tuesday (July 30). The rule affects about 1,600 psychiatric hospitals or hospital units and takes effect Oct. 1. The expected 1.5% pay increase...