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Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP 
Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare

On April 19, 2022, I posted a blog to inform our readers of this latest proposed rule – FY 2023 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Care Hospitals (LTCH PPS) Proposed Rule – CMS-1771-P.

CMS has posted a corresponding Fact Sheet to help providers with an overview of the proposed rule – there’s a lot of moving parts that also impact Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs).  “This rule also includes proposed revisions to the hospital and critical access hospital (CAH) conditions of participation (CoPs) for infection prevention and control and antibiotic stewardship programs. These proposed revisions would require hospitals and CAHs, after the conclusion of the current COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), to continue COVID-19 and seasonal influenza reporting, and would establish new reporting requirements for future declared public health emergencies related to a specific infectious disease or pathogen.”

Additional significant highlights of the Proposed Rule Fact Sheet include:

• Proposed Changes to Payment Rates under IPPS
• Use of the Best Available Data
• Proposed Changes Related to MS-DRGs
• Social Determinants of Health Comment Solicitation
• Payment Adjustment for Domestically Made Surgical N95 Respirators Comment Solicitation
• Graduate Medical Education (GME) Proposals
• Uncompensated Care Payments
• Treatment of Section 1115 Demonstrations for Purposes of Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) Payments
• Cap on Wage Index Decreases
• Current State of Hospital Assessment on the Impact of Climate Change and Health Equity
• Principles for Measuring Health Care Quality Disparities
• Continuing to Advance Toward Future Digital Quality Measurement
• Establishment of a Publicly-Reported Hospital Designation on Maternity Care
• Hospital Inpatient Quality-Reporting (IQR) Program
• Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program
• PPS-Exempt Cancer Hospital Quality Reporting (PCHQR) Program
• Measure Suppression or Refinement Policies in Response to COVID-19 PHE in Certain Value-Based Purchasing Programs
• Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP)
• Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program
• Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program
• Long Term Care Hospital Quality Reporting Program (LTCH QRP)
• Changes to Payment Rates under LTCH PPS
• Extensions of the Rural Community Hospital and Frontier Community Health Integration Project (FCHIP) Demonstrations
• Proposed Revision to Conditions of Participation (CoP) for Hospitals and CAHs To Report Data Elements for COVID-19, Seasonal Influenza, and Future Pandemics and Epidemics as Determined by the Secretary
• A Commitment to Improving Maternal Health in the U.S.
• Proposed Establishment of a Publicly-Reported Hospital Designation to Capture the Quality and Safety of Maternity Care
• Expansion of Designation Components
• Request for Information to Advance Maternal Health Equity

Resources round out this very lengthy 2-page Fact Sheet. Be sure to click on Next -> at the bottom of the initial landing page to review the rest of the Proposed Rule components.