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Inpatient Prospective Payment System: To Reform or Refine?

Inpatient Prospective Payment System: To Reform or Refine?. Parashar Patel Vice President, Reimbursement & Outcomes Planning Boston Scientific Corporation . Roadmap. Historical context Implications What’s Changed Recent Proposals Reform or Refine?. Back in 1983….

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Inpatient Prospective Payment System: To Reform or Refine?

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  1. Inpatient Prospective Payment System: To Reform or Refine? Parashar Patel Vice President, Reimbursement & Outcomes Planning Boston Scientific Corporation

  2. Roadmap • Historical context • Implications • What’s Changed • Recent Proposals • Reform or Refine?

  3. Back in 1983….. • M*A*S*H was preparing to say ‘Goodbye’ • Dynasty was in full swing • Cabbage Patch Doll frenzy • Flashdance created a fashion craze • Madonna was the Queen of video • Reagan was President • AND • Medicare implements Inpatient Prospective Payment System • Used cost-based DRG weights • Moves to charge-based weights for FY 1986

  4. Why PPS? • Lower growth in spending • Simplify payments • Previously paid on cost-basis using cost reports • More predictable payments • For hospitals and government • Reward efficiency • From micromanagement to macromanagement • Establish government as “prudent purchaser”

  5. Implications of IPPS • DRG Basics • 500+ Diagnosis Related Groups • Based on clinical similarities and costliness • Calculation: (Standard Base Payment) x (Wage Index) x DRG relative weight • DRG weight reflects relative costliness of discharges within grouping…charges proxy for cost • Adjustments made for • Outlier cases • Disproportionate share hospitals • Teaching facilities • New technology • Implications • Spending slowsdown and hospitals made money • Growth down to 7.0% (1983-2002) • Incentive to adopt cost saving technologies • Disincentives to adopt new, expensive technologies • Incentive to discharge patients to other settings • Other payers adopt PPS-type systems

  6. Major Shifts Since M*A*S*H, Dynasty, and Reagan • Cerebrovascular disease – neurovascular coiling • Carotid & coronary artery disease – stenting • Women’s health – endometrial ablation; fibroid embolization • Orthopedics – laparoscopic joint replacements Invasive Less-Invasive Sites of Service What is a hospital? Hospital Inpatient MD Office Hospital Outpatient ASC

  7. Proposed IPPS ReformHistorical Context • Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 • MedPAC study on physician-owned specialty hospitals • Moratorium on physician-owned specialty hospitals • 2005 MedPAC Report Findings • Unbalanced and inaccurate inpatient payment system • Over/under payment of services creates incentives for patient selection • Improving accuracy of system will make competition & payment more equitable between community and specialty hospitals

  8. Proposed IPPS ReformMedPAC Recommendations Use HRVs to Calc. Relative Weight Use hospital-specific relative values (HRVs) rather than national average relative values to weight payments 1 Use all patient refined DRGs (e.g., APR-DRGs) to adjust for differences in severity of illness and cost across patients Use Refined DRGs 2 Base DRG relative weights costs of providing care rather than average charges Rely on cost data 3 Modify Outlier Policy Adjust DRG relative weights to reflect differences in frequency of outliers across patient categories 4

  9. IPPS – Reform or Refine? • Payment reflecting cost of care • Accurate and timely data • Accommodate new medical technology • Quicker updates • Improved coding system • Minimize gaming incentives • Patient selection • Site-of-service • Simple to administer and use Core Principals REFINE… FOR NOW

  10. QUESTIONS?

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