The final rule also includes a market-basket update of 2.1 percent for hospitals that submit quality measures data, and hospitals not submitting this data will receive a 0.1 percent update.
The final rule represents a $2.2 billion increase in payments to hospitals in FY 2010, according to the report.
Read the AHA’s report about the CMS’s final IPPS rule.
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