04/18/19
CMS Releases IRF FY 2020 Proposed Rule
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the fiscal year (FY) 2020 Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) proposed rule. Highlights of the proposed rule include: CMS projects that IRF payments will increase by 2.3 percent for FY 2020 Revising the case-mix groups based on two years of data (FY 2017 and FY 2018) from the quality indicator data items and update the relative weights and average length of stay values associated with the revised case-mix groups beginning on October 1, 2019. Proposing 2 new interoperability measures for the IRF rule to implement the final requirements of the IMPACT
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