Proposed Rule
30 Apr 2025
health maintenance organizations (hmo), healthcare, health records, penalties, health professions, health facilities, intergovernmental relations, quality programs, compliance, regulations, health care, medicare, medicaid, administrative practice and procedure, puerto rico, privacy, health insurance, hospital payment, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, diseases
🏥Proposed Changes to Medicare Hospital Payment Systems for 2026
This proposed rule would revise the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) for operating and capital- related costs of acute care hospitals; make changes relating to Medicare graduate medical education (GME) for teaching hospitals; update the payment policies and the annual payment rates for the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient hospital services provided by long-term care hospitals (LTCHs); update and make changes to requirements for certain quality programs; and make other policy-related changes.
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