WATCH NOW | Advisor Live®: Reviewing the (FY) 2018 Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (PPS)/Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS Final Rule

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its fiscal year (FY) 2018 Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (PPS)/Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS final rule.

Join this live discussion from 2 – 3 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 17, to learn about the quality measurement and payment policy changes in this rule.

Topics of discussion include, but are not limited to:  

• Operating and capital payment rate updates
• Documentation and coding adjustment
• Outlier payments
• Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments
• Updates to the VBP, readmission reduction, and hospital-acquired condition reduction programs
• Inpatient Quality Reporting changes
• Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program
• Long-term care hospital payment and quality changes

This Advisor Live® presentation is open to the public.

When: Thursday, August 17 at 2 p.m.

Speakers:

• Danielle Lloyd, M.P.H., vice president, policy and advocacy, deputy director, DC office, Premier Inc.
• Aisha Pittman, M.P.H., senior director, quality policy and analysis, Premier Inc.
• Kellie Webb, M.B.A., director, payment policy and analysis, Premier Inc.

Event Materials: 

• Download the presentation slides
• IPPS Final Rule
• Fact Sheet