Low-Volume Blood Products Set For Payment Increase Under 2005 OPPS
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
CMS will raise payments for low-volume blood product APCs in 2005 in response to stakeholder comments that the proposed rates were too low
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