06/10/2025 | News release | Distributed by Public on 06/10/2025 12:12
Families USA submitted comments on proposed Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) regulation for Calendar Year 2026.
The comment letter details the impacts of proposals by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to undermine hospital requirements to improve health inequities as well as proposals to improve efforts to hold hospitals accountable for health care costs and quality.
Because Medicare sets the benchmark for how most health care services are reimbursed across all payers, engaging in the Medicare payment rulemaking process is critical to protect and improve health care payment and delivery.
Specifically, the letter addresses:
IPPS and other Medicare payment rules hold the key to addressing the failures of our current health care payment system and should be leveraged to align the way health care is paid for with the needs of our nation's families.