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Medicare Program; Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2026 and Updates to the IRF Quality Reporting Program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on April 30, 2025. Comments closed on June 10, 2025.
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What the agency says
This proposed rule would update the prospective payment rates for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2026. As required by statute, this proposed rule includes the proposed classification and weighting factors for the IRF prospective payment system's case-mix groups and a description of the methodologies and data used in computing the prospective payment rates for FY 2026. It also continues the second year of the 3-year phaseout of the rural adjustment, which began in FY 2025. Additionally, the proposed rule includes updates to the IRF Quality Reporting Program (QRP).
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-06336
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule
- Agency
- Health and Human Services Department; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Published
- April 30, 2025
- Comments due
- June 10, 2025
- Dates
- To be assured consideration, comments must be received at one of the addresses provided below by June 10, 2025.
- Docket
- CMS-1829-P
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0938-AV48
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 42 CFR 412
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Health facilities; Medicare; Puerto Rico; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 32
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