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Author : Grace M. Carter
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ISBN 13 : 9780833025111
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (251 download)
Download or read book A Prospective Payment System for Inpatient Rehabilitation written by Grace M. Carter and published by . This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9780833056634
Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book Analyses for the Initial Implementation of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Congress mandated that Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) implement a Prospective Payment System (PPS) for inpatient rehabilitation. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS, the successor agency to HCFA) issued the final rule governing such a PPS on August 7, 2001 and the system went into effect on January 1, 2002. This report details the analyses that RAND performed to support HCFA's efforts to design, develop, and implement the PPS. It describes RAND's research on new function-related groups, comorbidities, unusual cases, facility-level adjustments, outlier payments, facility-level adjustments, and assessment instruments. In addition, it presents RAND's recommendations concerning the payment system and discusses the researchers' plans for further research on the monitoring and refinement of the PPS.
Author : Grace M. Carter
Publisher : RAND Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780833031488
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Analyses for the Initial Implementation of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System written by Grace M. Carter and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes the research that Rand performed to support the efforts of the Health Care Financing Adinnistration to design, develop, and implement a Prospective Payment System.
Author : Grace M. Carter
Publisher : RAND Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780833031297
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Executive Summary of Analyses for the Initial Implementation of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System written by Grace M. Carter and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes the research that RAND performed to support the efforts of the Health Care financing Administration to design, develop, and implement a Prospective Payment System for inpatient rehabilitation.
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Total Pages : 34 pages
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Download or read book Executive Summary of Analyses for the Initial Implementation of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Congress mandated that the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) implement a Prospective Payment System (PPS) for inpatient rehabilitation under Medicare. This new PPS will be implemented beginning January 1, 2002. This report describes the research that RAND performed to support HCFA's efforts to design, develop, and implement this Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility PPS, or IRF PPS. It presents recommendations concerning the payment system and also discusses our plans for further research on the monitoring and refinement of the PPS. The new PPS will apply to rehabilitation hospitals and to distinct rehabilitation units of acute care hospitals that were excluded from the acute care PPS. Medicare patients in such facilities must receive intensive therapy (generally at least three hours per day). In addition, 75 percent of each facility's patients must have one often specified problems related to neurological or musculoskeletal disorders or burns. Since 1982, Medicare payment for these rehabilitation facilities has been made under the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA). The payment amount depends on a per-case target amount that is calculated from historical costs at the facility trended forward and on the hospital's actual cost per case. Under TEFRA, there is no adjustment for changes in a hospital's case mix or for outlier cases. This lack of adjustment creates incentives for providers to specialize in relatively less-expensive cases and, as a result, might limit beneficiary access. TEFRA pays for discharges that do not include a full course of rehabilitation (e.g., short stays for evaluation, transfer cases) as full cases. These payments in excess of costs may have both quality and cost-control implications. TEFRA was widely perceived to be unfair to older hospitals.
Author : The Law The Law Library
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ISBN 13 : 9781721541560
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2018 (Us Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (Cms) (2018 Edition) written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-17 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2018 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2018 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This final rule updates the prospective payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) for federal fiscal year (FY) 2018 as required by the statute. As required by section 1886(j)(5) of the Social Security Act (the Act), this rule includes the classification and weighting factors for the IRF prospective payment system's (IRF PPS) case-mix groups and a description of the methodologies and data used in computing the prospective payment rates for FY 2018. This final rule also revises the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) diagnosis codes that are used to determine presumptive compliance under the "60 percent rule," removes the 25 percent payment penalty for inpatient rehabilitation facility patient assessment instrument (IRF-PAI) late transmissions, removes the voluntary swallowing status item (Item 27) from the IRF-PAI, summarizes comments regarding the criteria used to classify facilities for payment under the IRF PPS, provides for a subregulatory process for certain annual updates to the presumptive methodology diagnosis code lists, adopts the use of height/weight items on the IRF-PAI to determine patient body mass index (BMI) greater than 50 for cases of single-joint replacement under the presumptive methodology, and revises and updates measures and reporting requirements under the IRF quality reporting program (QRP). This book contains: - The complete text of the Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2018 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
Author : The Law The Law Library
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ISBN 13 : 9781722392864
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2008 (Us Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (Cms) (2018 Edition) written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2008 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2008 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This final rule will update the prospective payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2008 (for discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2007 and on or before September 30, 2008) as required under section 1886(j)(3)(C) of the Social Security Act (the Act). Section 1886(j)(5) of the Act requires the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register on or before the August 1 that precedes the start of each fiscal year, the classification and weighting factors for the IRF prospective payment system's (PPS) case-mix groups and a description of the methodology and data used in computing the prospective payment rates for that fiscal year. This book contains: - The complete text of the Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2008 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
Author : The Law The Law Library
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ISBN 13 : 9781721541270
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2012 (Us Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (Cms) (2018 Edition) written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-17 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2012 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2012 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This final rule will implement section 3004 of the Affordable Care Act, which establishes a new quality reporting program that provides for a 2 percent reduction in the annual increase factor beginning in 2014 for failure to report quality data to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This final rule will also update the prospective payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2012 (for discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2011 and on or before September 30, 2012) as required under section 1886(j)(3)(C) of the Social Security Act (the Act). Section 1886(j)(5) of the Act requires the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register on or before the August 1 that precedes the start of each FY the classification and weighting factors for the IRF prospective payment system (PPS) case-mix groups and a description of the methodology and data used in computing the prospective payment rates for that fiscal year. We are also consolidating, clarifying, and revising existing policies regarding IRF hospitals and IRF units of hospitals to eliminate unnecessary confusion and enhance consistency. Furthermore, in accordance with the general principles of the President's January 18, 2011 Executive Order entitled "Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review," we are amending existing regulatory provisions regarding "new" facilities and changes in the bed size and square footage of IRFs and inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs) to improve clarity and remove obsolete material. This book contains: - The complete text of the Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2012 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
Author : The Law The Law Library
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ISBN 13 : 9781722437299
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Medicare Programs - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2015 (Us Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (Cms) (2018 Edition) written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare Programs - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2015 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Medicare Programs - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2015 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This final rule updates the prospective payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) for federal fiscal year (FY) 2015 as required by the statute. This final rule finalizes a policy to collect data on the amount and mode (that is, Individual, Concurrent, Group, and Co-Treatment) of therapy provided in the IRF setting according to therapy discipline, revises the list of diagnosis and impairment group codes that presumptively meet the "60 percent rule" compliance criteria, provides a way for IRFs to indicate on the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility-Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI) form whether the prior treatment and severity requirements have been met for arthritis cases to presumptively meet the "60 percent rule" compliance criteria, and revises and updates quality measures and reporting requirements under the IRF quality reporting program (QRP). This rule also delays the effective date for the revisions to the list of diagnosis codes that are used to determine presumptive compliance under the "60 percent rule" that were finalized in FY 2014 IRF PPS final rule and adopts the revisions to the list of diagnosis codes that are used to determine presumptive compliance under the "60 percent rule" that are finalized in this rule. This final rule also addresses the implementation of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM), for the IRF prospective payment system (PPS), which will be effective when ICD-10-CM becomes the required medical data code set for use on Medicare claims and IRF-PAI submissions. This book contains: - The complete text of the Medicare Programs - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2015 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
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Total Pages : 115 pages
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Download or read book Prospective Payment System for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9781721541393
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Download or read book Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2016 (Us Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (Cms) (2018 Edition) written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2016 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2016 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This final rule updates the prospective payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) for federal fiscal year (FY) 2016 as required by the statute. As required by section 1886(j)(5) of the Act, this rule includes the classification and weighting factors for the IRF PPS's case-mix groups and a description of the methodologies and data used in computing the prospective payment rates for FY 2016. This final rule also finalizes policy changes, including the adoption of an IRF-specific market basket that reflects the cost structures of only IRF providers, a 1-year phase-in of the revised wage index changes, a 3-year phase-out of the rural adjustment for certain IRFs, and revisions and updates to the quality reporting program (QRP). This book contains: - The complete text of the Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2016 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
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ISBN 13 : 9781722393038
Total Pages : 78 pages
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Download or read book Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2009 (Us Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (Cms) (2018 Edition) written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2009 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2009 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This final rule updates the prospective payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2009 (for discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2008 and on or before September 30, 2009) as required under section 1886(j)(3)(C) of the Social Security Act (the Act). Section 1886(j)(5) of the Act requires the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register on or before the August 1 that precedes the start of each fiscal year, the classification and weighting factors for the IRF prospective payment system's (PPS) case-mix groups and a description of the methodology and data used in computing the prospective payment rates for that fiscal year. This book contains: - The complete text of the Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2009 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
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Total Pages : 139 pages
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Download or read book Prospective Payment System for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities written by CCH Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9781721541331
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Download or read book Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2014 (Us Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (Cms) (2018 Edition) written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2014 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2014 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This final rule updates the prospective payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) for federal fiscal year (FY) 2014 (for discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2013 and on or before September 30, 2014) as required by the statute. This final rule also revised the list of diagnosis codes that may be counted toward an IRF's "60 percent rule" compliance calculation to determine "presumptive compliance," update the IRF facility-level adjustment factors using an enhanced estimation methodology, revise sections of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility-Patient Assessment Instrument, revise requirements for acute care hospitals that have IRF units, clarify the IRF regulation text regarding limitation of review, update references to previously changed sections in the regulations text, and revise and update quality measures and reporting requirements under the IRF quality reporting program. This book contains: - The complete text of the Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2014 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
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ISBN 13 : 9781721541492
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Download or read book Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2017 (Us Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (Cms) (2018 Edition) written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2017 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2017 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This final rule will update the prospective payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) for federal fiscal year (FY) 2017 as required by the statute. As required by section 1886(j)(5) of the Act, this rule includes the classification and weighting factors for the IRF prospective payment system's (IRF PPS's) case-mix groups and a description of the methodologies and data used in computing the prospective payment rates for FY 2017. This final rule also revises and updates quality measures and reporting requirements under the IRF quality reporting program (QRP). This book contains: - The complete text of the Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2017 (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
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ISBN 13 : 9781722466138
Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book Medicare Program - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System (2007 Fy) (Us Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (Cms) (2018 Edition) written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare program - Inpatient rehabilitation facility prospective payment system (2007 FY) (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Medicare program - Inpatient rehabilitation facility prospective payment system (2007 FY) (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This final rule will update the prospective payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2007 (for discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2006 and on or before September 30, 2007) as required under section 1886(j)(3)(C) of the Social Security Act (the Act). This book contains: - The complete text of the Medicare program - Inpatient rehabilitation facility prospective payment system (2007 FY) (US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Regulation) (CMS) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
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Total Pages : 354 pages
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Download or read book Analysis for the Initial Implementation of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Congress mandated that the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) implement a Prospective Payment System (PPS) for inpatient rehabilitation under Medicare. This new PPS was implemented beginning on January 1, 2002. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS, the successor agency to HCFA) issued the final rule governing the PPS on August 7, 2001. This report describes the research that RAND performed to support HCFA's efforts to design, develop, and implement this PPS. It presents recommendations concerning the payment system and discusses our plans for further research on the monitoring and refinement of the PPS. The initial design of the system was first presented in a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) (HCFA, 2000). Our interim report, Carter et al. (2000), presented analyses that HCFA used to help make its decisions in the NPRM. In this report, we update these analyses using later data. We also improve the analysis and our recommendations to HCFA by taking into account comments made by our Technical Expert Panel in its review of our interim report. This is a report of research. The final decisions made by CMS and the rationale for those decisions may be found in the rule governing the IRF PPS (CMS, 2001). The new PPS applies to rehabilitation hospitals and to distinct rehabilitation units of acute care hospitals, which are excluded from the acute care PPS. To qualify for such exclusion, rehabilitation facilities must meet two conditions. First, Medicare patients must receive intensive therapy (generally at least three hours per day). Second, 75 percent of each facility's patients must have one of 10 specified problems related to neurological or musculoskeletal disorders or burns. We call this PPS the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility PPS, or IRF PPS.
