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On July 29, CMS issued a final rule (CMS-1647-F) outlining FY 2017 Medicare payment policies and rates for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Prospective Payment System (PPS) and the IRF Quality Reporting Program (QRP). CMS is updating the IRF PPS payments for FY 2017 to reflect an estimated 1.65 percent increase factor (reflecting an IRF-specific market basket estimate of 2.7 percent, reduced by a 0.3 percentage point multi-factor productivity adjustment and a 0.75 percentage point reduction required by law). An additional approximate 0.3 percent increase to aggregate payments due to updating the outlier threshold results in an overall estimated update of approximately 1.9 percent (or $ 145 million), relative to payments in FY 2016.

• No changes to the facility-level adjustment

• Rural adjustment transition: Continue year two of the phase-out of the 14.9 percent rural adjustment for IRF providers in areas that were designated as rural and changed to urban under the new Office of Management and Budget delineations

Changes to the IRF QRP:

• Adopts three measures to meet the resource use and other measure domains and one measure to satisfy the domain of medication reconciliation

• IRFs that fail to submit the required quality data to CMS will be subject to a 2 percentage point reduction to their applicable FY annual increase factor

• Begin publically reporting IRF quality data in fall 2016

• Adopted an extension of the time frame for submission of exception and extension requests for extraordinary circumstances from 30 days to 90 days from the date of the qualifying event

For More Information:

• Final Rule will become effective on October 1, 2016

• IRF PPS website

• IRF QRP website

See the full text of this excerpted CMS fact sheet (issued July 29).

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[Announcement] IRFs: Final FY 2017 Payment and Policy Change