On Friday, February 6th, 2015, CMS issued a Federal Register notice releasing a draft of revisions to the hospital Cost Report. The new draft form revisions are being proposed to accommodate the statutory requirement for hospice payment reform and the statutory requirement establishing a prospective payment system for Federally Qualified Health Centers in the ACA. These provisions are effective for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 2014.
The draft is available at the CMS website:
http://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/PaperworkReductionActof1995/PRA-Listing-Items/CMS-2552-10.html?DLPage=1&DLSort=1&DLSortDir=descending
HFS is currently reviewing the draft forms and anticipates that CMS will release final forms and instructions in the summer of 2015. Once final forms are available, HFS will update the software and make the new form set available to current users of the 2552-10 software.
If you have any questions, please contact Eric Swanson at eric@hfssoft.com.
CMS published the final FY 2016 wage index Public Use File (PUF) on May 1, 2015. CMS indicated that hospitals will have approximately 1 month to verify their data and submit correction requests to both CMS and their MAC to correct errors due to CMS or MAC mishandling of the final wage and occupational mix data.
The following file has been created and can be downloaded and used with the Wage Index Verification Tool for the Federal Fiscal Year 2016, Final Rule PUF:
FY 2016 May 1 2015 Wage Index PUF HFS Modified CSV 2552-10
CMS published a revised wage index Public Use File (PUF) on February 13, 2015. CMS indicated that the data has been desk reviewed and verified by the MACs before being published.
The following file has been created and can be downloaded and used with the Wage Index Verification Tool for the Federal Fiscal Year 2016, Final Rule PUF:
FY 2016 February 2015 Wage Index PUF HFS Modified CSV 2552-10
CMS Published the FY 2016 Preliminary wage index files on the CMS Web site. These files contain the preliminary worksheet S-3, Part II cost report wage data from FY 2012. Hospitals will have until early October 2014 to request revisions to the wage data posted in the Preliminary S-3 PUF and Preliminary CY 2013 Occupational Mix Survey data PUF.
The following file has been created and can be downloaded and used with the Wage Index Verification Tool for the Federal Fiscal Year 2016, Proposed Rule PUF:
FY 2016 May 2014 Preliminary Wage Index PUF HFS Modified CSV 2552-10