Director, Division of Chronic Care Management

0938-AS97 201610 The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 0938 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS 0900 Department of Health and Human Services HHS FY 2018 Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System--Rate Update (CMS-1673-P)

This annual proposed rule would update the prospective payment rates for inpatient psychiatric facilities with discharges beginning on October 1, 2017.

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This rule is required to update the prospective payment rates and wage index values for Medicare inpatient hospital services provided by inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs), which include freestanding IPFs and psychiatric units of an acute care hospital or critical access hospital.

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Under section 1886 of the Act, rates are adjusted based on the market basket update. These changes would be applicable to services furnished on or after October 1, 2017.

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None. This is a statutory requirement.

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Total expenditures will be adjusted for FY 2018.

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If this regulation is not published timely, IPFs will not receive accurate Medicare payments for furnishing inpatient psychiatric services to beneficiaries in IPFs in FY 2018.

]]> NPRM 04/00/2017 Undetermined Federal State No No No Jana Lindquist Director, Division of Chronic Care Management 0938 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS 410 786-9374 jana.lindquist@cms.hhs.gov Center for Medicare, MS: C5-05-27, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore MD 21244