Hospitals that do not accurately and completely report quality data under the
Reporting Hospital Quality Data for Annual Payment Update (RHQDAPU)
program stand to lose virtually all of their market basket update for fiscal year
(FY) 2010. On July 30, 2009, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS) released a display copy of the FY 2010 Inpatient Prospective Payment
System (IPPS) Final Rule, which includes changes to rebase and revise the
market basket update calculation, as well as several important changes to the
RHQDAPU program for FY 2010 and beyond.
Please see full publication below for more information.