Medicare-Changes to Prospective Payment Systems and Disclosures

Final Rules:

1. Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2009 Rates;
2. Payments for Graduate Medical Education in Certain Emergency Situations;
3. Changes to Disclosure of Physician Ownership in Hospitals and Physician Self-Referral Rules;
4. Updates to the Long-Term Care Prospective Payment System;
5. Updates to Certain IPPS-Excluded Hospitals; and
6. Collection of Information Regarding Financial Relationships Between Hospitals