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CMS Pub. 100-04, ch. 3, § 150.1
Background
LTCHs are certified under Medicare as short-term acutecare hospitals that have been
excluded from the acute care hospital inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) under
§1886(d)(1)(B)(iv) of the Act and, for Medicare payment purposes, are generally defined
as having an average inpatient length of stay of greater than 25 days. This PPS replaced
the previous reasonable cost-based payment system for LTCHs.
History
(Rev. 1, 10-01-03)
Provenance
- Source
- cms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-25
- Edition
- iom-2026-08-25
- Content hash
7e2b8d08e53bd00da527748ffed4086370c59ce6f4b4b584af5a057e1947b4c3
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