NAPH Submits Comments on FY 2012 IPPS Rule - June 21, 2011

NAPH on June 17 submitted its comments on the proposed fiscal year (FY) 2012 Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) rule to the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In addition to urging CMS to not finalize its proposed -3.15 percent documentation and coding adjustment to the FY 2012 standardized amount, NAPH also strongly encouraged CMS to consider broader exclusions for planned and unrelated admissions and to expand its risk-adjustment methodology for its Readmissions Reduction Program. With respect to the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program, NAPH recommended that CMS delay adoption of the efficiency measure for both the Inpatient Quality Reporting Program and the Hospital VBP Program until such a measure has been field tested and endorsed by a national quality organization. The full NAPH comment letter is available online.