News & Analysis as of August 24, 2025

Final Rules

+ Follow

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPAC), also known as Obamacare, is a United States federal statute passed in March of 2010. The Act creates a nationwide insurance system and provides federal... more +

CMS Publishes IPPS and LTCH Final Rule for FY 2026

King & Spalding on 8/7/2025

On Thursday, July 31, 2025, CMS issued its annual Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System Final Rule for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 (the Final Rule). In...more

CMS Issues IPPS and LTCH PPS Final Rule for FY 2024

King & Spalding on 8/9/2023

On August 1, 2023, CMS issued its annual Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS) Final Rule for FY 2024 (the Final Rule). In the Final Rule, CMS,...more

CMS Issues IPPS and LTCH Final Rule for FY 2023

King & Spalding on 8/10/2022

On August 1, 2022, CMS issued its annual Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System Final Rule for FY 2023 (the Final Rule). In the Final Rule, CMS...more

CMS Issues FY 2020 Inpatient PPS and Long-Term Care Hospital PPS Final Rule

King & Spalding on 8/9/2019

On August 2, 2019, CMS issued its annual Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System Final Rule for FY 2020 (the Final Rule). Highlights include...more

CMS Releases 2017 Medicare Hospital Payment Rates, Penalties for Poor Performers

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 9/8/2016

Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule (Final Rule) modifying the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective...more

CMS Releases FY 2017 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System Final...

King & Spalding on 8/10/2016

On August 2, 2016, CMS released a final rule (Final Rule) with updates to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (Hospital IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS) affecting...more

CMS Issues Final Rule for CY 2016 OPPS and Changes to the Two-Midnight Rule

King & Spalding on 11/5/2015

On October 30, 2015, CMS issued its final rule with comment period (Final Rule) for the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) and the Medicare ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system for...more

CMS Issues FY 2016 IPPS and LTCH Final Rule

King & Spalding on 8/4/2015

On July 31, 2015, CMS issued its final rule to update the fiscal year (FY) 2016 Medicare payment policies and rates under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and the Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective...more

8 Results

View per page

Page: of 1

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) › Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) › Final Rules

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"