Understanding Medicare’s Final FY 2019 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Rule On-Demand Webinar (9/12/2018)
This webinar reviews the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) final inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) regulations. The final rule contains updated and changes affecting operations and capital-related costs for provider organizations and implements provisions contained in the Affordable Care Act, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act, and other legislation. These changes take effect on October 1, 2018.
Description
- Identify and understand FY 2018 CMS market basket update and corresponding adjustments including ACA's productivity adjustment documentation and coding modifications, and CMS' rationale for such adjustments
- Understand changes to the DRGs and their weighting factors, transfer DRGs, capital payments, outlier thresholds and DSH uncompensated Care Payments
- Explain changes to the area wage index methodology and how these could impact hospital Medicare IPPS payments
- Identify Medicare's growing emphasis on quality including quality reporting, value-based purchasing, the readmission penalty, and hospital-acquired condition reduction program