Inpatient Rehabilitation Settings Affected The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) is to be paid to release proposed regulations nearest month for the Medicare prospective payment rule (PPS) affecting inpatient rehabilitation settings.

Inpatient Rehabilitation Settings Affected

The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) is to be paid to release proposed regulations nearest month for the Medicare prospective payment rule (PPS) affecting inpatient rehabilitation settings. Implementation of the PP has been delayed from Oct 1 2000 until April 1 2001 and that delay may mean worthy news for speech-language pathologists (SLPs)

Because of the delay, HCFA has decided to adopt recommendations of its contractor, RAND Corp., and use the Minimum Data establish for Post-Acute Care (MDS-PAC) as its assessment tool for PP

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