Thu, Sep 24
|WEBINAR
2021 Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) Final Regulations
The final rule contains updates and changes affecting operations and capital-related costs for healthcare providers and implements provisions contained in the Affordable Act (ACA), the Protecting Access to Medicare Act and other legislation. These changes take effect on October 1, 2020
Time & Location
Sep 24, 2020, 2:00 PM CDT
WEBINAR
About the Event
This webinar reviews the CMS final inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) regulations. The final rule contains updates and changes affecting operations and capital-related costs for healthcare provider organizations and implements provisions contained in the Affordable Act (ACA), the Protecting Access to Medicare Act and other legislation. These changes take effect on October 1, 2020.
After this program, you'll be able to..
- Identify and understand the FY21 CMS market basket update and corresponding adjustments including the ACA's productivity adjustment documentation and coding modifications, and CMS's rationale for such adjustments.
- Understand changes to the DRGs and their weighting factors, transfer DRGs, capital payments and outlier thresholds.
- Explain changes to the area wage index methodology and how these could impact hospital or health system Medicare IPPS payments.
- Identify Medicare's growing emphasis on quality, including reporting, value-based purchasing, the readmission penalty, and hospital-acquired condition reduction program.