GAO reviewed the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) new rule on Medicare and Medicaid Programs and the hospital outpatient prospectvie payment and ambulatory surgical center payment systems and quality reporting programs; electronic reporting pilot; inpatient rehabilitation facilities quality reporting program and revision to quality improvement organization regulations. GAO found that (1) the final rule with comment period revises the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) and the Medicare ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system for calendar year (CY) 2013 to implement applicable statutory requirements and changes arising from CMS's continuing experience with these systems. In addition, the final rule with comment period updates and refines the requirements for the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR) Program, the ASC Quality Reporting (ASCQR) Program, and the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Quality Reporting Program. CMS is continuing the electronic reporting pilot for the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program and revising the various regulations governing Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs), including the secure transmittal of electronic medical information, beneficiary complaint resolution and notification processes, and technical changes; and (2) CMS complied with applicable requirements in promulgating the rule.
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