Discusses the effect of the revised Medicare wage index data correction procedure on Medicare appeal rights. Impact of wage index on hospital payment rates with the implementation of the Medicare outpatient prospective payment system; Concern regarding U.S. Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA)...
By the way, the top middle column on “other noninterest spending” shows one thing that is real, which is that defense spending has fallen as a share of GDP since the mid-1960s, and one thing that may not be real, which is that politicians somehow will limit domestic discretionary ...
Medicare reimburses providers for each dialysis treatment performed using a single predetermined rate that is adjusted for patient characteristics (e.g., age and body mass index) and area wage differences. Prior to the MIPPA, Medicare provided dialysis payment on a per treatment basis, also known...