title: Rule emphasizes quality and cost savings.
abstract: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) emphasizes improving quality and efficiencies across settings in the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule for 2012. Hospitals will receive a 1% market basket increase in reimbursement. CMS announced a Medicare spending-per-beneficiary measures that will be used in the Value-Based Purchasing program and the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program. CMS is adding new quality measures involving infection control in 2014 and 2015.
mesh_terms: D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D059019:Clinical Coding / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D017046:Cost Savings; D004282:Documentation / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D038801:International Classification of Diseases / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D011445:Prospective Payment System / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States