Release Date: July 29, 2021
Federal Register Publication Date: August 4, 2021
Effective Date: October 1, 2021
Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF) Final Rule:
| Update factors |
Final FY21 |
Final FY22 |
| IPF Market Basket |
2.2% |
2.7% |
| Outlier fixed-dollar loss threshold |
(.0%) |
.1% |
| Economy wide productivity adjustment |
(.0%) |
(0.7%) |
| IPF Payment Rate |
2.2% |
2.1% |
CMS estimates total payments to IPFs to increase by 2.1% or $80 million in FY 2022 related to IPF payments in FY 2021. Some takeaways from final rule include:
- IPF PPS Federal per diem base rate from $815.22 to $832.94.
- Wage index budget-neutrality factor from .9989 to 1.0017.
- Labor-related share from 77.3 percent to 77.2 percent.
- CMS continues to make changes to the IPF PPS teaching policy in regards to displaced residents from IPF hospital closures and closures of IPF teaching programs.
- Adopting COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage among Healthcare Personnel (HCP) measure to the IPF QRP using the COVID-19 Modules on the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network web portal.
- Remove the FUH measure from the IPF QRP.
- Transition patient-level reporting for chart-abstracted measures.
Sources: CMS FY 2022 Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF) Prospective Payment System (PPS) Final Rule and Federal Register
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