2023-07389: Medicare Program; Proposed Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2024 Rates; Quality Programs and Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program Requirements for Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals; Rural Emergency Hospital and Physician-Owned Hospital Requirements; and Provider and Supplier Disclosure of Ownership

Summary

This proposed rule would: revise the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) for operating and capital- related costs of acute care hospitals; make changes relating to Medicare graduate medical education (GME) for teaching hospitals; update the payment policies and the annual payment rates for the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient hospital services provided by long-term care hospitals (LTCHs); and make other policy-related changes.

The agency’s own summary, as published.

What this changes

Amends 6 parts of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.

• 42 CFR 411 Exclusions from Medicare and Limitations on Medicare Payment
• 42 CFR 412 Prospective Payment Systems for Inpatient Hospital Services
• 42 CFR 419 Prospective Payment Systems for Hospital Outpatient Department Services
• 42 CFR 488 Survey, Certification, and Enforcement Procedures
• 42 CFR 489 Provider Agreements and Supplier Approval
• 42 CFR 495 Standards for the Electronic Health Record Technology Incentive Program