Hospitals receive little from CMS inpatient payment rule

Modern Healthcare: The CMS finalized widely panned proposals on new quality measures and site-neutral payments and declined to say whether the agency plans to extend the enforcement delay on the two-midnight rule governing short hospital stays.

The payment rule for the Inpatient Prospective Payment System, issued July 31, also lowers hospitals' rate increase for 2016 to 0.9% from the 1.1% increase proposed in April.

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