AHA calls 2.8% inpatient payment increase ‘woefully inadequate’  

Acute care hospitals that successfully participate in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program and are meaningful electronic health record users will get a proposed payment rate increase of 2.8% in 2024, under a proposed rule released Monday.

This reflects a projected hospital market basket update of 3%, reduced by a projected 0.2 percentage point productivity adjustment. 

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