Medicare and Medicaid Programs and the Children’s Health Insurance Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2025 Rates; Quality Programs Requirements; and Other Policy Changes

Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 proposed Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS) for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System rule. We are providing comments on several elements of the proposal, including the proposed changes to the severity level designation for the diagnosis codes describing inadequate housing and housing instability, collection of four new items as standardized patient assessment data elements beginning with the FY 2028 LTCH Quality Reporting Program (QRP), and more.