Summary of the IPPS proposed rule worth the read

One of our goals is to use this blog as a forum to share information -- including reports from other sources -- that the industry might find useful during the transition to MS-DRGs. I recently came across an article that provided some good analysis of the IPPS Proposed Rule. Although the article was published in late April, there is a wealth of information in it that I haven’t seen posted elsewhere.

The article is written by Larry Goldberg, who is the senior advisor for health care legislative and regulatory matters at Grant Thornton, LLC, a global accounting, tax and business advisory firm. At 27 pages, the article is quite long, but it’s worth browsing through the article to find the following sections:

• A thorough list comparing how CMS-DRGs will transform into MS-DRGs
• An analysis of secondary diagnoses using CCs and MCCs
• Details about specific DRG changes
• Evaluation of the hospital wage index with specific examples

The full article can be found by clicking here.