Article: HCFA outlines PPS case mix and other key components.

HCFA outlines PPS case mix and other key components

By MATTHEW HAY

HHBR Washington Correspondent

BALTIMORE The Health Care Financing Admin istration (HCFA; Washington) last week detailed key provisions of its 376-page draft proposal for a home health prospective payment system (PPS), which is to replace the highly controversial interim payment system (IPS) on Oct. 1, 2000.

HCFA officials noted that the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA) permits the agency to transition to PPS by mixing the current cost-based system with the new prospective system. But agency officials declined that option due mainly to concerns about IPS.

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