PPS FINAL RULE RELEASED

• CMS sticks with 1/1/08 effective date
• Financial impact: PPS revamp adds fourth year of base payment cuts
• Clinical/OASIS impact: CMS finalizes plans to overhaul PPS
• Coding impact: 153 new case-mix groups, points for secondary and V codes in '08

PPS Document Service

• 2008 PPS update Final Rule published in the Federal Register 8/29/2007
• New Fact Sheet compares today vs. PPS in 2008
• CMS analysis of rule
• Case-mix adjusted scores and diagnosis categories: Table 2A, 2B, 2C
  Table 3: Severity group definitions
  Table 4: Calculating case-mix weights
• Worktool: Oasis Form

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