{"id":345,"date":"2016-08-04T06:04:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T13:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2017-05-05T14:39:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T21:39:22","slug":"ws-s-10-implementation-delayed-per-2017-ipps-final-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"W\/S S-10 Implementation Delayed Per 2017 IPPS Final Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
On Friday July 29, 2016 HFS posted and\u00a0issued an email highlighting CMS Transmittal number 1681 to Publication 100-20 that provided guidance for accepting FY 2014 amended cost reports from hospitals requesting to revise Worksheet S-10 in light of CMS’s proposal to begin using Worksheet S-10 data to determine uncompensated care payments starting in FY 2018.<\/p>\n

On August 2, 2016 CMS published the FY 2017 Final Rule and in this rule they delayed the implementation of using the Worksheet S-10.\u00a0 Below is an excerpt relating to this with the link to the final rule also shown below.<\/p>\n

At this time, we are not finalizing a future transition to using Worksheet S-10 data to determine the amounts and distribution of uncompensated care payments.\u00a0 Specifically, we had proposed to use a 3-year transition beginning in FY 2018 where we use a combination of Worksheet S-10 and proxy data until FY 2020 when all data used in computing the uncompensated care payment amounts to be distributed would come from Worksheet S-10.\u00a0 In light of public comments, we believe it would be appropriate to institute certain additional quality control and data improvement measures to the Worksheet S-10 instructions and data prior to moving forward with incorporation of Worksheet S-10 data into the calculation of Factor 3. Consequently, we are not finalizing our proposal to begin to incorporate Worksheet S-10 data into the computation of Factor 3 for FY 2018. In light of the significant concerns expressed by commenters regarding the Worksheet S-10 data, we are postponing the decision regarding when to begin incorporating data from Worksheet S-10 and proceeding with revisions to the cost report instructions for Worksheet S-10. We expect data from the revised Worksheet S-10 to be available to use in the calculation of Factor 3 in the near future, and no later than FY 2021. With regard to how Factor 3 will be computed in FY 2018 and subsequent years, we intend to explore whether there is an appropriate proxy for uncompensated care that could be used to calculate Factor 3 until we determine that data from the revised Worksheet S-10 can be used for this purpose. We will undertake further notice-and-comment rulemaking to address the issue of the appropriate data to use to determine Factor 3 for FY 2018 and subsequent fiscal years.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/public-inspection.federalregister.gov\/2016-18476.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

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On Friday July 29, 2016 HFS posted and\u00a0issued an email highlighting CMS Transmittal number 1681 to Publication 100-20 that provided guidance for accepting FY 2014 amended cost reports from hospitals requesting to revise Worksheet S-10 in light of CMS’s proposal to begin using Worksheet S-10 data to determine uncompensated care payments starting in FY 2018. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}