The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed a 2.4% payment rate bump for inpatient services for fiscal year 2027, as well as the first mandatory nationwide test of an episode-based payment model. Hospitals’ proposed payment bump of 2.4% reflects a 3.2% market basket increase and a 0.8 percentage point productivity adjustment. It represents a roughly $1.4 billion increase to hospital payments in the coming fiscal year, with CMS adding that it expects additional payments for inpatient cases involving new technologies will rise by $464 million during the same period.
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Source: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/cms-proposes-24-hospital-pay-increase-nationwide-mandatory-model-rollout