Medicare Program; FY 2022 Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System and Quality Reporting Updates for Fiscal Year Beginning October 1, 2021 (FY 2022)
medicare · Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services · Rule · Published 2021-08-04 · Effective 2021-10-01 · 86 FR 42608
Document
Document number
2021-16336
Federal Register citation
86 FR 42608
CFR reference
42 CFR 412
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
medicare
Sub-agency
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Publication date
2021-08-04
Effective date
2021-10-01
HHS docket
CMS-1750-F
Abstract
This final rule updates the prospective payment rates, the outlier threshold, and the wage index for Medicare inpatient hospital services provided by Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities (IPF), which include psychiatric hospitals and excluded psychiatric units of an acute care hospital or critical access hospital. This rule also updates and clarifies the IPF teaching policy with respect to IPF hospital closures and displaced residents and finalizes a technical change to one of the 2016-based IPF market basket price proxies. In addition, this final rule finalizes proposals on quality measures and reporting requirements under the Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Quality Reporting (IPFQR) Program. We note that this final rule does not finalize two proposals to remove quality measures. The changes finalized in this rule for the IPFQR Program are effective for IPF discharges occurring during the Fiscal Year (FY) beginning October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022 (FY 2022).