CMS Releases FY 2022 IPPS Final Rule

On August 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted the FY 2022 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule. Effective October 1, 2021, the final rule updates Medicare payment policies and quality reporting programs relevant for inpatient hospitals, and seeks to address challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

CMS stated that the FY 2022 IPPS final rule will be issued in multiple parts. The agency will address comments on proposals related to disproportionate share hospital payments, organ acquisition costs, and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA) provision concerning payments to hospitals for direct graduate medical education (GME) and indirect medical education in subsequent publications.

The final rule is available here. A CMS factsheet on the final rule is available here. The final rule is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on August 13, 2021.