What's New

Medicare Inpatient Payments
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/AcuteInpatientPPS/IPPS/list.asp?sortByDID=4a&filterType=none&filterByDID=-99&sortOrder=ascending&intNumPerPage=10&submit.x=8&submit.y=11

Medicare Value Based Purchasing-VBP (Payment for Quality-P4P)
Issues Paper: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/AcuteInpatientPPS/downloads/hospital_VBP_plan_issues_paper.pdf
1/17/07 Listening Session Audio Download: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/files/acuteinpatientpps/hospital_list_session.m3u
Next Wave Comments: whitepapers/VBP-Next Wave Written Comments-final.pdf

New Medical Technology - Medicare Inpatient 
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/AcuteInpatientPPS/08_newtech.asp#TopOfPage

ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Meetings
(Proposals for New ICD-9-CM Codes) 
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ICD9ProviderDiagnosticCodes/03_meetings.asp#TopOfPage

Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF)
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/InpatientRehabFacPPS/02_Highlights.asp#TopOfPage

Hospital Quality Initiative
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/HospitalQualityInits/