>From the MLN: Long-Term Care Hospital PPS Fact Sheets Revised The fact sheets listed below provide education on the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS). They have been recently updated and are available in downloadable format from the Medicare Learning Network®:
§ "Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System: News" provides information about recent updates to the LTCH PPS final rule and can be found at http://www.CMS.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/LTCH-News.pdf. § "Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System: Interrupted Stay" describes the payment of interrupted stays in long-term care hospitals and can be found at http://www.CMS.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/LTCH-IntStay.pdf. § "Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System: Short-Stay Outliers" explains the calculation and payment of short-stay outliers (SSOs) under the LTCH PPS and can be found at http://www.CMS.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/LTCH-ShortStay.pdf. § "Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System: High-Cost Outliers" explains the calculation of high-cost outliers under the LTCH PPS and can be found at http://www.CMS.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/LTCH-HighCost.pdf. § "Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System: Payment Adjustment Policy" describes the payment adjustment policy under the LTCH PPS and can be found at http://www.CMS.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/LTCHPaymentAdjustPolicy.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: If you have problems accessing any hyperlink in this message, please copy and paste the URL into your Internet browser. If you know someone who would like to subscribe to a Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) provider listserv, go to (http://www.cms.gov/prospmedicarefeesvcpmtgen/downloads/Provider_Listservs.pdf). If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific provider listserv, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?INDEX) to unsubscribe or to leave the appropriate listserv. Please DO NOT respond to this email. This email is a service of CMS and routed through an electronic mail server to communicate Medicare policy and operational changes and/or updates. Responses to this email are not routed to CMS personnel. Inquiries may be sent by going to (http://www.cms.gov/ContactCMS). Thank you.
