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  "id": 16334,
  "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/04/2026-15833/medicare-program-hospital-inpatient-prospective-payment-systems-for-acute-care-hospitals-ipps-and",
  "title": "Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals (IPPS) and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Rates; Requirements for Quality Programs; Other Policy Changes; and Adoption of Updated Versions of",
  "summary": "This final rule will revise the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) for operating and capital-related costs of acute care hospitals; make changes relating to Medicare graduate medical education (GME) for teaching hospitals; update the payment policies and the annual payment rates for the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient hospital services provided by long-term care hospitals (LTCHs); update and make changes to requirements for certain quality prog",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "policy",
  "topics": "regulation,healthcare,children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-04T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-05T05:10:44.550Z",
  "source_slug": "fedreg",
  "source_name": "US Federal Register",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.federalregister.gov",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16334",
  "original_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/04/2026-15833/medicare-program-hospital-inpatient-prospective-payment-systems-for-acute-care-hospitals-ipps-and",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
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