Medicare program; hospital inpatient prospective payment systems for acute care hospitals and the long-term care hospital prospective payment system and fiscal year 2015 rates; quality reporting requirements for specific providers; reasonable compensation equivalents for physician services in excluded hospitals and certain teaching hospitals; provider administrative appeals and judicial review; enforcement provisions for organ transplant centers; and electronic health record (EHR) incentive prog

• Published in: Federal register Vol. 79; no. 163; p. 49853
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 22.08.2014
• Subjects: Economics, Hospital - legislation & jurisprudence; Electronic Health Records - economics; Electronic Health Records - legislation & jurisprudence; Hospitals, Teaching - economics; Hospitals, Teaching - legislation & jurisprudence; Humans; Legislation, Hospital - economics; Long-Term Care - economics; Long-Term Care - legislation & jurisprudence; Medicare - economics; Medicare - legislation & jurisprudence; Organ Transplantation - legislation & jurisprudence; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Prospective Payment System - economics; Prospective Payment System - legislation & jurisprudence; Quality Assurance, Health Care - legislation & jurisprudence; United States; United States

We are revising the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) for operating and capital-related costs of acute care hospitals to implement changes arising from our continuing experience with these systems. Some of these changes implement certain statutory provisions contained in...