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CMS on Sept. 6 posted this graphic explaining Z codes and the purpose of collecting them. For example, Medicare for the first time will pay for homelessness under the 2024 final inpatient prospective payment system regulation published in the Aug. 28 Federal Register.[1] It reinforces the Biden administration’s determination to embed health equity in its payment and policy decisions.
1 Medicare 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 2024 Rates; Quality Programs and Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program Requirements for Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals; Rural Emergency Hospital and Physician-Owned Hospital Requirements; and Provider and Supplier Disclosure of Ownership; and Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) Payments: Counting Certain Days Associated With Section 1115 Demonstrations in the Medicaid Fraction, 88 Fed. Reg. 58,640 (Aug. 28, 2023), https://bit.ly/44HRXfM.