The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today that it intends to expand the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Review Choice Demonstration to include IRFs in Texas and California. The ...

The proposed integrity audit on inpatient rehabilitation facilities in four states during the public health emergency raises a number of concerns for hospitals. Stakeholders are asking the federal ...

Inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF) were the recent target of two OIG reviews. While the reports on the reviews contain information pertinent to IRFs, the official Centers for Medicare & ...

CMS has decided to increase payments for inpatient rehabilitation and psychiatric facilities at higher rates than it proposed in April, according to final rules published July 27. 1. CMS will increase ...

Medicare spent nearly $7 billion on inpatient rehabilitation stays in 2013, the vast majority of which was improper, according to the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG). Based on a sampling of ...

Federal officials announced two updated quality indicator submission requirements for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) on Thursday. During a conference call, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule to update payment rates and clarify the framework for Medicare patient selection and care in inpatient rehabilitation ...

CMS published a final rule on August 6, 2013 that updates Medicare IRF PPS rates for FY 2014. CMS is applying a 1.8 percent payment update to IRF PPS rates for FY 2014, derived from a 2.6 percent ...

CMS releases final inpatient rehabilitation payment rule: 7 things to know CMS released its final fiscal year 2018 rule for Medicare inpatient rehabilitation facilities, which includes payment ...