CMS Updates to Policies and Payment Rates for End-Stage Renal Disease Facilities for CY 2016 and Changes to the ESRD Quality Incentive Program

(Source – CMS.gov, 10/29/2015)

Finalized Payment System

OVERVIEW:  On October 29, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule to update payment policies and rates under the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Prospective Payment System (PPS) for renal dialysis services furnished to beneficiaries on or after January 1, 2016.

The ESRD final rule is one of several rules for calendar year 2016 that reflect a broader Administration-wide strategy to provide quality care at lower cost by improving ways to deliver care, pay providers, and use information.  Provisions in these rules are helping to move our health care system to one that values quality over quantity and focuses on reforms such as measuring for better health outcomes, focusing on disease prevention, helping patients live successfully at home, helping manage and improve chronic diseases, and fostering a more efficient and coordinated health care system.

This final rule also includes changes to the ESRD Quality Incentive Program (QIP) for payment years (PYs) 2017-2019 under which payment incentives are made to dialysis facilities to improve the quality of dialysis care.  Under the ESRD QIP, facilities that do not achieve a minimum total quality performance score receive a reduction in their payment rates under the ESRD PPS.  Read more…

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