Report finds proposed rule likely to underpay hospitals significantly 

Along with the comment letters, AHA shared with CMS a new report by FTI Consulting assessing the adequacy of the proposed rule’s payment updates, which found that “reliance on lagging indicators of hospital costs to determine prospective market basket and productivity adjustments in this highly dynamic and uncertain health care environment would likely result in significant underpayments to acute care hospitals in FY 2023.”