Inpatient psychiatric facilities will have nine additional months – until July 2013 – to prepare to collect data for the new quality reporting program under the IPF prospective payment system, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Aug. 2. The American Hospital Association had urged CMS to delay the proposed Oct. 1, 2012 start of data collection to give distinct part IPF units, which represent more than two-thirds of IPFs and have never reported quality measures, adequate time to build the infrastructure needed to accurately collect and report data.
According to the notice, IPFs will receive an estimated 0.8% ($36 million) net Medicare payment increase under the IPF PPS in fiscal year 2013. The update reflects a 2.7% market-basket update minus a 0.1 percentage point reduction and 0.7 percentage point reduction required by law; along with a 1.1 percentage point decrease due to an update to the outlier threshold amount, which decreases outlier payments from about 3.1% in rate year 2012 to 2.0% in FY 2013.
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