CMS is finalizing its proposal to remove four SDOH standardized patient assessment data elements to reduce burden.

Inpatient rehab facilities would see a 2.8% rate hike for 2025. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also wants public input on a star rating system for these providers.

3. CMS estimates that overall IRF payments will increase by 4 percent ($355 million) in 2024. Inpatient psychiatric facilities 4. In 2024, CMS will increase IPF payments by 2.3 percent ($70 million).

CMS wants to boost Medicare payments for inpatient rehabilitation facilities by 2.2% and inpatient psychiatric facilities by 2.3% next year, the agency said Wednesday.

In a separate rule, CMS said inpatient rehabilitation facilities would increase by about 0.9% ($75 million) in 2018.

Inpatient rehab facilities received an estimated $34 million in overpayments from Medicare between 2004 and 2007, according to a report from the Office of the Inspector General. This has prompted ...

The national ratio of Clostridium difficile infections reported by inpatient rehabilitation facilities across the U.S. between Oct. 1, 2022, and Sept. 30, 2023, was 0.408, according to data ...

Inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) were overpaid by Medicare by $8.4 million between calendar year 2009 and 2010, a government report reveals.

Based on a sampling of inpatient rehabilitation stays, the OIG estimated that Medicare improper payments to inpatient rehabilitation facilities totaled $5.7 billion in 2013, prompting the watchdog ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has finalized rules for increasing payment to skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehab and psychiatric facilities and includes a new patient-driven ...

CMS is suggesting a 2 percent increase for inpatient rehab facilities in fiscal 2014, which would increase overall payments by $150 million. For skilled nursing facilities, the payment bump would ...