even complications that are possibly preventable. Frequently, the Medicare payment system has paired DRGs: one DRG for the condition and one DRG for the condition
although phased-in, reduction to their bad debt reimbursement. Medicare reimbursement remains, and will likely remain in the future, a zero-sum game where an increase in reimbursement for one service, supplier, or provider usually means a decrease in reimbursement for other services, suppliers or ...
The article reports on the letters sent by legislators in the U.S. Congress to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which urged CMS to reconsider its plan of reducing Medicare payments of hospitals through a coding offset in its proposed fiscal year 2012 inpatient payment system...
Reports on the release of the 2005 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) final rule by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in November 2, 2004. Impact of the OPPS rule; Overview of the OPPS; Comments from the American Hospital Association on the actions taken by...