Summary of 2022 IPPS Proposed Rule: Part Two

Today’s article is a continuation of last week’s treatment of Medicare’s 2022 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule (PR), released in late April.  As we pointed out previously, the PR contains over 1,900 pages of proposals.  Consequently, we have found it necessary to break down the proposed changes among multiple alerts so that we might provide as many relevant highlights as possible to our readers.  With that said, the following will act to summarize more details in the PR—beyond what we summarized last week—that hospital executives and clinicians will find most relevant.