tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 41

Rehab: REHAB PROVIDERS LAUNCH NEW SALVO AGAINST 75-PERCENT RULE

IRFs will shut down unless CMS acts, rehab hospitals argue.  Inpatient rehabilitation facilities are in for financial challenges that could force as many as a quarter of them to shut down if the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services doesn't back down from a controversial component of the IRF prospective payment system. So say the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association, citing the results of a survey conducted this month. The rule under fire - dubbed the 75-percent rule - requires rehab hospitals to show that at least three-quarters of their inpatient population over...

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