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Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities; Updates to the Quality Reporting Program and Value-Based Purchasing Program for Federal Fiscal Year 2025
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published this final rule in the Federal Register on August 6, 2024. It took effect on October 1, 2024.
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What the agency says
This final rule finalizes changes and updates to the policies and payment rates used under the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment System (PPS) for fiscal year (FY) 2025. First, we are rebasing and revising the SNF market basket to reflect a 2022 base year. Next, we update the wage index used under the SNF PPS to reflect data collected during the most recent decennial census. Additionally, we finalize several technical revisions to the code mappings used to classify patients under the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) to improve payment and coding accuracy. This final rule also updates the requirements for the SNF Quality Reporting Program and the SNF Value- Based Purchasing Program. Finally, we also are revising CMS' enforcement authority for imposing civil money penalties (CMPs) and including revisions to strengthen nursing home enforcement regulations.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-16907
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Health and Human Services Department; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Published
- August 6, 2024
- Takes effect
- October 1, 2024
- Dates
- These regulations are effective on October 1, 2024.
- Docket
- CMS-1802-F
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0938-AV30
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 42 CFR 413; 42 CFR 488
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Diseases; Health facilities; Health professions; Medicare; Puerto Rico; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Pages
- 116
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