Fiscal Year 2022 IPPS Proposals Related to GME Payments
By EsqSocial Corporation 18/05/21
The FY 2022 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule implements the three noteworthy Graduate Medical Education (GME) provisions included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA). As explained in Baker Donelson's previous Payment Matters article on the CAA, this legislation included several long-awaited GME policy changes. Notably, the CAA: 1) authorized the distribution of 1,000 new Medicare-funded GME positions (Sec. 126), 2) made statutory changes to modify the way...
By: Baker Ober Health Law