1. Proposed Rule CMS-1500-P
Title: Medicare Program; Proposed Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2006 Rates
Publication Date: 05/04/2005
Description: We are proposing to revise the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) for operating and capital-related costs to implement changes arising from our continuing experience with these systems. In addition, in the Addendum to this proposed rule, we describe the proposed changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the rates for Medicare hospital inpatient services for operating costs and capital-related costs. We also are setting forth proposed rate-of-increase limits as well as proposed policy changes for hospitals and hospital units excluded from the IPPS that are paid in full or in part on a reasonable cost basis subject to these limits. These proposed changes would be applicable to discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2005, with one exception: The proposed changes relating to submittal of hospital wage data by a campus or campuses of a multicampus hospital system (that is, the proposed changes to Sec. 412.230(d)(2) of the regulations) would be effective upon publication of the final rule.
Among the policy changes that we are proposing to make are changes relating to: the classification of cases to the diagnosis-related groups (DRGs); the long-term care (LTC)-DRGs and relative weights; the wage data, including the occupational mix data, used to compute the wage index; rebasing and revision of the hospital market basket; applications for new technologies and medical services add-on payments; policies governing postacute care transfers, payments to hospitals for the direct and indirect costs of graduate medical education, submission of hospital quality data, payment adjustment for low-volume hospitals, changes in the requirements for provider-based facilities; and changes in the requirements for critical access hospitals (CAHs).
2. Final Rule CMS-1500-F
Title: Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2006 Rates
Publication Date: 08/12/2005
Description: We are revising the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) for operating and capital-related costs to implement changes arising from our continuing experience with these systems. In addition, in the Addendum to this final rule, we describe the changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the rates for Medicare hospital inpatient services for operating costs and capital- related costs. We also are setting forth rate-of-increase limits as well as policy changes for hospitals and hospital units excluded from the IPPS that are paid in full or in part on a reasonable cost basis subject to these limits. These changes are applicable to discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2005, with one exception: The changes relating to submittal of hospital wage data by a campus or campuses of a multicampus hospital system (that is, the changes to Sec. 412.230(d)(2) of the regulations) are effective on August 12, 2005.
Among the policy changes that we are making are changes relating to: The classification of cases to the diagnosis-related groups (DRGs); the long-term care (LTC)-DRGs and relative weights; the wage data, including the occupational mix data, used to compute the wage index; rebasing and revision of the hospital market basket; applications for new technologies and medical services add-on payments; policies governing postacute care transfers, payments to hospitals for the direct and indirect costs of graduate medical education, submission of hospital quality data, payment adjustment for low-volume hospitals, changes in the requirements for provider-based facilities; and changes in the requirements for critical access hospitals (CAHs).
3. Correction Notice CMS-1500-CN
Title: Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2006 Rates; Correction
Publication Date: 09/30/2005
Description: This document corrects technical errors in the final rule that appeared in the August 12, 2005 Federal Register entitled ``Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2006 Rates.''
4. Correcting Amendment CMS-1500-F2
Title: Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2006 Rates; Correcting Amendment
Publication Date: 10/04/2005
Description: This document corrects technical errors in the final rule that appeared in the August 12, 2005 Federal Register entitled ``Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2006 Rates.''