CMS Pursues Ongoing Health Equity Efforts In 2024 IPPS Proposed Rule

CMS on Monday (April 10) proposed a slew of health equity measures as part of its fiscal 2024 inpatient prospective payment system and long-term care hospital prospective payment system proposed rule -- a move that builds on the agency’s efforts to boost health equity last year. Last year’s proposed inpatient pay rule requested more information on how including diagnosis codes on hospital patients’ social determinants of health on Medicare claims could improve equity, laid out ways to hike hospital pay...