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WASHINGTON — The Army’s new human resource system the Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army, or IPPS-A, is making military pay issues a remnant of the past for the Army National Guard. On April 20, ...

The Biden administration is proposing a 2.8% bump to inpatient payments to eligible hospitals in the next fiscal year, a $3.3 billion boost for facilities. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...

A new CMS final rule increases IPPS payment rates by 2.6% for 2026 and finalizes several key policy changes, including the launch of a mandatory bundled payment model, new e-prescribing standards, and ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has locked in a 3.1% pay bump for inpatient payments to eligible hospitals during fiscal year 2024, which the agency said translates to a $2.2 ...

CMS has finalized a 2.6% payment increase for inpatient services, boosted DSH payments, established new interoperability rules for prior authorization, and confirmed the launch of a controversial ...

CMS pays acute care hospitals (with a few exceptions specified in the law) for inpatient stays under the IPPS and long-term care hospitals under the LTCH PPS. Under these two payment systems, CMS sets ...

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Army senior leaders announced today that the rollout of the Integrated Personnel Pay System-Army Release 3 will be moved from December 2021 to September 2022. IPPS-A is the Army’s No ...

Medicare and hospitals go hand in hand. Hospital payments account for the greatest share of the federal program’s spending, and Medicare is the largest payor for hospital services, comprising a ...