CMS Releases FY 2018 Inpatient PPS Final Rule.

The article discusses the hospital inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) final rule that was issued by the U.S. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for fiscal year (FY) 2018. Topics mentioned include the increase of the rates due to inflation, the market-basket update of hospitals that were electronic health records users in 2016, and the transition that will start on 2018 in using the Worksheet S-10 data for determining the distribution and amounts of uncompensated payments.