CMS has corrected a series of technical and typographical errors in its final rule updating the Medicare acute hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective payment system (PPS) payments and policies for fiscal year (FY) 2017. Among other things, CMS is making changes to the budget neutrality factors, uncompensated care payments, outlier adjustment factors, standardized amounts, capital federal rate, new technology add-on payment thresholds, and various MS-DRG assignments. The changes are effective October 1, 2016.
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