Member News

Academy staff, with the help of members of the Evidence, Quality, Performance Committee (EQPC) and Reimbursement and Policy Review Committee (RPRC), are hard at work reviewing the latest proposed payment rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). We are in the process of developing comment letters on behalf on the specialty. View the proposed rules:

• Inpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule (comments Due June 13): https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/04/28/2017-07800/medicare-program-hospital-inpatient-prospective-payment-systems-for-acute-care-hospitals-and-the. 
• Skilled Nursing Facility proposed rule (comments due June 26: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/05/04/2017-08521/medicare-program-prospective-payment-system-and-consolidated-billing-for-skilled-nursing-facilities.  
• Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility proposed rule (comments due June 26): https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/05/03/2017-08428/medicare-program-inpatient-rehabilitation-facility-prospective-payment-system-for-federal-fiscal.     

Stay tuned for more updates as your Academy continues to advocate for physiatry.